The Harare Launch of Ignatius Mabasa's The Mad

You are invited to the launch of The Mad at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Harare on 10 October 2025 from 6.00pm to 7.30pm.

Ignatius Mabasa, the author of the original chiShona version Mapenzi, and J. Tsitsi Mutiti, the translator of Mapenzi into English as The Mad, will be in discussion moderated by Memory Chirere.

Thanks to Wisrod Investments and the National Gallery of Zimbabwe for supporting the event.

The Mad is co-published in Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom by amaBooks Publishers and Carnelian Heart Publishing.

Copies of the book will be available at the launch for $20, otherwise in Zimbabwe through Book Fantastics (contact through @bookfantastics on Instagram, or @Book_Fantastics on X) and in the UK through Amazon or carnelianheartpublishing.co.uk.

The Mad has already received international attention as  a shift in the movement of stories across languages - works first written and published in African languages being increasingly translated into English for a broader readership. J. Tsitsi Mutiti's translation of The Mad is to be published in North America next spring as the inaugural title in the University of Georgia Press's African Language Literatures in Translation series.