NoViolet Bulawayo Allegorizes the Aftermath of Robert Mugabe

GLORY by NoViolet Bulawayo Early in NoViolet Bulawayo’s brilliant new novel, “Glory,” he completely removes the vocabulary of “humans” from the story and the language of its all-animal characters. The book is set in Jidada, a fictional African country that can be understood as a kind of fantasy of Zimbabwe in the period between the …