Book launch: Sweet Medicine

Sweet Medicine is the story of a young woman, Tsitsi, who compromises the values of her strict Catholic upbringing to find romantic and economic security.

Panashe Chigumadzi, founder and editor of Vanguard Magazine, a platform for young black women coming of age in post-apartheid South Africa, will host a "book-club style discussion” of her debut novel Sweet Medicine, with Professor Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí, Maneo Mohale and Dr Danai Mupotsa, women from different generations, locations and fields. Sweet Medicine is the story of a young woman, Tsitsi, who compromises the values of her strict Catholic upbringing to find romantic and economic security through “otherworldly means”.

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