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.
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