"Baobabs is an eloquent debut novel by a young Zimbabwean author writing from the heart of the contemporary African experience. Set at the crossroads of city and village life, modern and mythic history, it is urbane and humorous, thoughtful and sensual, violent and nostalgic. Most of us view Zimbabwe through a glass darkly; but now, through the directness, urgency, and immediacy of Tawanda Chabikwa's fiction, we can see this agonized country face to face."