Issue I — October 2025

VeKwedu

A quarterly publication of Zimbabwean stories

VeKwedu Issue 1 — Mutupo

Issue I

Mutupo

On names, kinship, and the threads that hold us to one another.

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In This Issue

  1. 01

    Ngano

    Kamba naVana Veshiri

    Retold by Vekwedu

    A tortoise who longed to fly bargained with the birds of the sky — and learned something about the price of wanting what is not yours.

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  2. 02

    Poetry

    Mutupo

    T. Rumbidzai

    A poem about the clan name carried in the body, recited at borders, lost and recovered across generations.

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