"Why don't you tell the children a story?" : father figures in three Zimbabwean short stories / Kizito Z. Muchemwa -- Killing fathers / Robert Muponde -- Of fathers and ancestors in Charles Mungoshi's Waiting for the rain / Neil Ten Kortenaar -- "Sins of the fathers" : revealing family secrets in Mungoshi's later fiction / Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo -- The strong healthy man : AIDS and self-delusion / Lizzy Attree -- Fatherhood and nationhood : Joshua Nkomo and the re-imagination of the Zimbabwe nation / Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni -- Mai Mujuru : father of the nation? / Lene Bull Christiansen -- Masculinities, race, and violence in the making of Zimbabwe / Jane L. Parpart -- It couldn't be anything innocent : negotiating gender in patriarchal-racial spaces / Ane M. Ørbø Kirkegaard -- "Boys" : performing manhood in Zimbabwean drama / Praise Zenenga -- "A man can try" : negotiating manhoods in colonial urban spaces in Dambudzo Marechera's The house of hunger and Yvonne Vera's Butterfly burning / Grace A. Musila -- The nature of fatherhood and manhood in Zimbabwean texts of pre-colonial and colonial settings / Mickias Musiyiwa and Memory Chirere -- Intricate space : the father-daughter relationship in Zimbabwean literature and culture / Anna Chitando and Angeline M. Madongonda.