Waiting for Rain or Waiting for Godot?

ZIMBABWE’S story may be told through two books.

One is Waiting for the Rain, Charles Mungoshi’s enduring novel about a society suspended between inheritance and change, certainty and uncertainty, yesterday and tomorrow.

The other is Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, the famous play in which two men spend their lives waiting for someone who never arrives.

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