Ake Festival 2022 | IN CONVERSATION - Omotoke Solarin-Sodara, Tendai Huchu

When Tendai Huchu gave us The Hairdresser of Harare, and then The Maestro, The Magistrate and The Mathematician, nothing could have prepared us for the rush of blood to the head that is the Edinburgh Nights Series. Ropa Moyo drops out of school to become a ghost talker who speaks to Edinburgh’s dead, carrying messages to the living. It seems harmless enough until the dead whisper that someone is bewitching children, leaving them empty of joy and life. Ropa feels honour-bound to investigate. What she learns will change her world. Omotoke Solarin-Sodara will talk about books, change, and reinvention with one of Zimbabwe’s best-known and most prolific writers.