“In examining how people in Eastern Zimbabwe have made sense of,
responded and become resilient to the vagaries of Zimbabwe’s complex,
multiple crises, through a critical and theoretically informed analysis
of Shona cosmologies, Nhemachena has produced a book of wonderful
intellectual ambition and thoughtful ethnographic insight. Critically
engaging his deep and ethnographically grounded understanding of Shona
cosmology and ontologies with theoretical insights from Deleuzian,
Ingoldian and a wealth of other current anthropological approaches,
Nhemachena offers an approach to understanding life and living in parts
of postcolonial and post 2000 Zimbabwe that is unique and will be useful
for scholars of African politics and economy as much as for
anthropologists concerned with African religions and cosmology.”
