Feso

Solomon Mutswairo

Oxford University Press
Oxford
1956
English

The book is out of print.

Synopsis

Feso, by Mutswairo, is the first Shona novel. Being the first Shona novel, it marks a transition from oracy to a new mode, the written word. Feso was received with much enthusiasm and varied interpretations by critics which resulted in the novel being banned at the height of political upheavals during the colonial days.

Review

... the novel became a great popular success in capturing the imagination of the African nationalist movement [and] for its lyrical evocation of a mood of protest and rebellion. - Elaine Windrich, African Affairs

Author

Solomon Mangwiro Mutswairo was a Zimbabwean novelist and poet. He taught at Howard University in the 1970s, wrote and published the first Shona novel in 1956. He died in 2005.