{Parenthesis} is an electronic chapbook for charity
by Melissa Tandiwe Myambo
"In the order of nature we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom. But the benefit we receive must be rendered again, line for line, deed for deed, cent for cent, to somebody.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Artist
Melissa Tandiwe Myambo was shortlisted for the 2012 Caine Prize for African Writing.
She is the author of Jacaranda Journals (www.jacarandajournals.com), a collection of short stories set in Zimbabwe. She is currently working on a new collection entitled Airport Stories. {Parenthesis} contains four of her previously published stories including her Caine Prize-shortlisted story “La Salle de Départ.” Watch Melissa Tandiwe Myambo being interviewed about her 2012 shortlisted story: http://youtu.be/Pnu1tOUOfVA |
The Work
Four Stories, Three Dollars, Two Charities Supported
A trip to Zimbabwe reveals more to Jennifer than she bargained for... Kuda looks for her identity in the stories she tells... Akhil returns to Nepal to meet the bride his parents have chosen for him... Senegalese siblings grapple with different notions of time and space, family and responsibility... |
The Charities
Supathya| Learning to care: www.supathya.org
Supathya promotes an education that actively fosters the health and well being of children and their environment. They believe that action for the welfare of children must go hand-in-hand with positive action for their environment, and that the children themselves must have a key hand in achieving this goal.
ZanaAfrica| Making pads to keep girls in school: www.zanaafrica.org
By making affordable sanitary pads, delivering health education and informing policy, ZanaAfrica provides Kenyan girls with the sanitary pads and the health education they need to stay in school and fulfill their dreams.
Supathya promotes an education that actively fosters the health and well being of children and their environment. They believe that action for the welfare of children must go hand-in-hand with positive action for their environment, and that the children themselves must have a key hand in achieving this goal.
ZanaAfrica| Making pads to keep girls in school: www.zanaafrica.org
By making affordable sanitary pads, delivering health education and informing policy, ZanaAfrica provides Kenyan girls with the sanitary pads and the health education they need to stay in school and fulfill their dreams.
