THE MOURNING BIRD

183pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2019

Winner of the Diaane Debut Fiction Award,

Novel set in Zambia in the 1990s. When eleven-year old Chimera and her younger brother Ali are orphaned, they choose to live on the streets rather than with their abusive extended family.

Mubanga Kalimamukwento is a criminal lawyer from Zambia. She is a fellow of the Young African Leaders Initiative and the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program.