Mubanga Kalimamukwento

Mubanga Kalimamukwento is an award-winning Zambian novelist and short-story writer living and studying in Minnesota. Her first novel, The Mourning Bird, won the Dinaane Debut Fiction Award. Her work has appeared in journals in France, Canada, Britain, Nigeria, Zambia, the UK and the USA and is forthcoming in the Red Rock Review. She’s a former Hubert H Humphrey (Fulbright) Fellow (2018/2019) and Young African Leaders Initiative Fellow (2017).

Articles by Mubanga Kalimamukwento:

Published in Overland Issue 237 Summer 2019

Womanhood

Mubanga Kalimamukwento

Ever since Grandpa died, Ambuya – Grandma – rations her affection in morsels, like the last pieces of beef in a stew. Some to Daddy, her first son, less to Mummy, the one who stole him from her bosom.