The Shipikisha Club by Mubanga Kalimamukwento
A woman on trial. A marriage built on silence. A culture that demands endurance. Sali, a working mother of three, is on trial for the murder of her husband, Kasunga. Accused of shooting him after a fight in their bedroom, she pleads not guilty and must rely on an overworked legal aid lawyer as a courtroom hungry for judgement looks on. Fourteen years earlier, Sali's life was shaped by a different kind of violence. The pressure to conform, to endure, to shipikisha. When an affair with a wealthy, married man ends in sudden death, she enters a loveless marriage to escape the shame of unwed motherhood. What follows is a life marked by infidelity, financial strain, postnatal depression and quiet suffering, until endurance finally gives way. Told through a braided narrative moving between past and present, The Shipikisha Club is a powerful literary novel about marriage, motherhood and the devastating cost of silence in contemporary Zambia.
Mubanga Kalimamukwento is a Zambian writer and criminal lawyer. Her debut novel The Mourning Bird won the Dinaane Debut Fiction Award, and her work has received the Drue Heinz Literature Prize and the 2024 Dzanc Prize for Fiction. She holds an MFA from Hamline University and lives in Minnesota, USA.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781913175900 |
| ISBN 10 | 1913175901 |
| Title | The Shipikisha Club |
| Author | Mubanga Kalimamukwento |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cassava Republic Press |
| Year published | 2026-07-23 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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