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Peter W. Vakunta

Peter Wuteh Vakunta was born and raised in the village of Bamunka-Ndop in Cameroon where he worked as senior translator at the Presidency of the Republic before immigrating to America. He is an alumnus of Sacred Heart College-Mankon. Vakunta obtained his Bachelor degrees in Cameroon and Nigeria; MA and MSE degrees in Cameroon and the U.S.A. At present, Vakunta and his family live in Madison, U.S.A. He teaches in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he is also completing his PhD dissertation titled: Translation in Literature: Indigenization in the Francophone Text. Vakunta is poet, storyteller and essayist. His published works include Better English: Mind Your P's and Q's, Lion Man and Other Stories (short stories), Brainwaves (poems), Pandora's Box (poems). African Time and Pidgin Verses (poems), Square Pegs in Round Holes (essays) and It Takes Guts (essays). Vakunta's literary works have earned him several awards in the U.S.A, U.K and Africa.

Case Closed

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Case Closed

A Detective Story Set in Zimbabwe

Case Closed new work in the genre of detective fiction, and the first in a planned series. The story is set in Zimbabwe, and features Chief Inspector Caleb Dube and his assistant, Sergeant Musindo. The drama unfolds as the assiduous Dube is driving home to Gweru one Sunday evening and discovers the body of a well-dressed man in a storm drain at the turn-off to St Francis Mission. Who is the victim and why was he killed? The investigation that follows, uncovers a world of greed and exploitation.

ISBN 9780869227732 | 156 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2004 | Mambo Press, Zimbabwe | Paperback

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Pauline Henson: Pauline Henson has lived most of her life in Zimbabwe. She is a part-time tutor at the Zimbabwe Open University, where she teaches African literature in English.

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