Books by Ndaba Sibanda

This beautiful work of poetry concerns a group of artists and attendees at a gallery who are marveling at a painting titled: Our Cooking Needs To Be Right And Out-and-Out. Everyone interprets art differently.Her painting was breathing, bright but brutally direct I froze immersed in the visual excitement of its dialect. Titled Our Cooking Needs To Be Right And Out-And-Out Its color combinations crisp and clear, it simply stood out.He tore off like a cheetah was his cousin...or better still, his personal athletic trainer.

A Different Ballgame: A Happy Harvest is the latest short poetry collection from acclaimed author Ndaba Sibanda. Poems about life, love, sadness and happiness will inspire you, move you and bring you to tears. They are SpecialWith a love essential,They and only they have love that knowsNo time, hardship, distance, disability or old age.Because, a mother's love is the epitome of perseverance.

To those who have walked through thick and thin without losing hope and focus. A man's mettle is constantly under the microscope of test and time. For, man is forever faced with the daunting task of rising above his plethora of adversities and infirmities and turning them into histories, glories and victories. Those are the definitive lifetime battles often wished away, yet there is spirit and strength of character in winning them rather than whining about them. Hare and Elephant were hauled to a court of justice. The ten-member jury had insects, birds, reptiles and animals in it. Bat presided over the deliberations. Every bird, every reptile, every animal and every insect watched the proceedings with keen interest. What would the outcome be and would they survive?

Ndaba Sibanda hits another home-run with his poetry collection, Sometimes Seasons Come With Unseasonal Harvests. Poems centered around nature and the natural coincide with poems that will inspire the reader.

Child marriages often occur in remote parts of the country where essential civil service is elusive and perpetrators are rarely brought to justice. Girls typically get married by virtue of pressure from parents, relatives, poverty and a lack of choices and chances. The United Nations estimates that child marriages will cost developing countries trillions of dollars by 2030. Child marriages are a cancer that is gradually eating away the vital organs of a country. The social and economic make-up of a country is under strain due to unfulfilled dreams of a youthful age group that should be the working class in a country's demography. This then encourages the vicious circle of poverty that children born by mothers bound in such unions find themselves in. Education is key to their personal and professional success and freedom.

President Ramaphosa stated, "Land is a very broad, as well as a complex issue, and it has to be handled very delicately because around land there is quite a lot of emotion".This is an incisive, relevant book which tackles recent, and sometimes explosive issues like the land reform and expropriation in South Africa and the outbreaks of xenophobia in same country.The essays also delve into such contentious issues as the continued exploitation of the African women and children, the need for Africa to build strong a tradition of strong institutions as opposed to strong personalities. The book highlights and celebrates the exemplary economic accomplishments scored by some of Africa`s sons and daughters in the 21st century. Considered for the 2019 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing in Nonfiction. A monumental work that delves into parental and societal intrigues. Thenjiwe Qhawekazi Gumede

There is a sea of challenges facing humanity, yet some people have gone for convenience instead of magnificence. Whenever my sight is blurred, and my judgement flawed, please show me the way. The obstacles will have to give way, for there is NO other way.

Ndaba Sibanda, from Zimbabwe, has co-authored more than thirty published books. He was a 2005 National Arts Merit Awards (NAMA) nominee, compiled and edited Its Time (2006), and Free Fall (2017), and the recipient of a Starry Night ART School scholarship in 2015.