Mubanga Kalimamukwento on Hope, Grief, and the Writing Technique of “One other Mom Does Not Come When Yours Dies”
Mubanga Kalimamukwento is a Zambian author and lawyer whose work explores themes of reminiscence, womanhood, and survival. She is the writer of The Mourning Chicken, a novel set towards the backdrop of Zambia’s AIDS disaster, which gained the Dinaane Debut Fiction Award in 2018/2019. Her second guide, Obligations to the Wounded, is a thematically linked…