This Kadoma, Zimbabwe-born novelist, mom of two, teaches us the value of networking each time she crosses intra-African borders March 2, 2015 Steppes in Sync Leave a comment No one ever expects to actually know a writer. Well, not a good writer anyway. Writers are faraway people who sit in some distant land penning novels surrounded by the mists of secrecy. A writer is not your next door neighbour , nor your colleague at work or your customer buying a litre of milk and a loaf of bread. As part of our African Literature as Creative Enterprise series , Brian Jones and Jane Morris of amaBooks talk to Bryony Rheam whose short stories they have published quite a few. Last year Kadoma, Zimbabwe-born Bryony travelled north-west to Abeokuta, Nigeria to talk about her This September Sun [ Get your copy ] at the Ake Festival, one of Africa’s largest literary events . Two and a half years before that, back in May 2012, this novel by ...