Irish characters come to life in a young Zimbabwe
Set in a time before Zimbabwe, the ‘breadbasket of Africa’, had plunged to disastrous depths, Michael Moloney’s debut novel depicts a delegation of Irish civil servants who travel to the country in 1980 - in the embryonic stages of Robert Mugabe’s ru
The Delegation
By Michael Moloney
Plassey Publishing, €10
Set in a time before Zimbabwe, the ‘breadbasket of Africa’, had plunged to disastrous depths, Michael Moloney’s debut novel depicts a delegation of Irish civil servants who travel to the country in 1980 - in the embryonic stages of Robert Mugabe’s rule.
In a land which had yet to become the continent’s heart of darkness, their brief is to persuade Mugabe to embrace western economic ...
