Customers line up outside a bank in downtown Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second largest city. Whether for bread, sugar, or devalued cash, waiting in lines has become a full time occupation in Zimbabwe.

Image “Glory,” which follows a cast of animal characters in a fictional nation, comes out on Tuesday. Bulawayo originally set out to write a work of nonfiction about Zimbabwe after the coup ...

On Nov. 14, 2017, novelist NoViolet Bulawayo woke up to the news that Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s ruler for nearly four decades, had been deposed in a coup. Bulawayo, 40, was at home in Oakland ...