![]() ![]() Citing United Kingdom in Harare North (2009) by Brian Chikwava and Edinburg Scotland in The Maestro, the Magistrate and the Mathematician (2015) by Tendai Huchu, these pastures are not green after all. People are migrating in search of greener pastures. ![]() The story is similar to the present migrant situation in Southern Africa and the world over. Geographically another place seems to be the solution. He believes there is an attraction to the foreignness when a person is unsatisfied with home setting. Ngamije opines that his inspiration behind the transcontinental journey in the novel highlights that migration, and foreign places shape people’s “ desires, fears, and ambitions” (Cheeky Natives 2020). Remy Ngamije’s debut novel The Eternal Audience of One was published in 2019 by Thabiso Mahlabe and the founder of Blackbird Books. It took 24 hours to read the 500 paged action novel and I even repeated to read it because of the thrilling Power Ranger narrative style by the astounding millennial young writer Ngamije. One such novel is The Eternal Audience of One by Rwandan born Namibian Remy Ngamije. This justifies why I had to spend the last quarter of 2020 reading novels from my personal home library. The COVID19 pandemic and its associated lockdowns have revamped the reading culture for people worldwide. A Post-colonialism millennial great piece of writing from Namibia diaspora ![]()
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