Cover Photo: An illustration of a young boy holding up a camera, lens turned on women in colorful clothing; behind him, the shadows of their missing sons loom
Illustration by Sirin Thada for Catapult

The Last of the Boys

That’s the problem with photographs, isn’t it? They remind you who is missing.

Forward with the struggle

Down with him

The woman is the home

any of you

Forward with the struggle.

Down with the sellout.

Smith usaone vana vamai vedu

Kugara musango

Vanogarira nyika yedu

Vanogarira nyika yedu 

Kugara musango

Vanogarira nyika yedu

They are fighting for our country.

They are fighting for our country.

They are fighting for our country.

They are fighting for our country!

Chido Muchemwa is a Zimbabwean writer currently living in Canada. Her work has appeared in Apogee, Baltimore Review, Bacopa Literary Review, Humber Literary Review, and the Tincture Journal. She has been shortlisted twice for the Short Story Day Africa Prize and placed 2nd in the Humber Literary Review’s 2020 Emerging Writers Fiction Contest.