The Hare Gets Married and Other Tales

About the Book

This book is inspired by folktales that my grandmother narrated to me when I was a child. Growing up in rural Zimbabwe, we would sit around the fire in our mud hut after dinner and listen to my grandmother’s storytelling long into the night. This book is a collection of different folktales that happened a long time ago, somewhere deep in the forests of Zimbabwe. The folktales sometimes feature some interaction between and among animals and sometimes a combination of animals and humans. The folktales are didactic in nature, thus they often end up depicting important life lessons.

About the Author

Victoria Mushaba Chimhutu was born in Mutare, Zimbabwe, in 1983. She went to Manzinde Primary School, Munyoro Secondary School, and Mt. Selinda High School. She graduated with a BSc in political science at the University of Zimbabwe in 2005 and afterward pursued an MPhil in public administration at the University of Bergen, Norway, and graduated in 2009.