Tej Rae
Tej Rae is a freelancer based in Addis Ababa, where she writes for the United Nations to support her fiction habit. After teaching English for 15 years, she transitioned to journalism and fiction. She is an editor for the literary magazine Wanderlust. Since 1999 she has lived in Zambia, Senegal, Dubai, and Rome with her husband and two children.
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Tigerfish
Mwati Mabula is a ten-year old girl who wants what she can’t have.
She is as strong-willed as her grandmother, the first female president of Zambia. To an outsider, it looks like Mwati has everything – which only makes it harder.
Mwati runs away from home by hiding in the guard’s pick-up truck, in search of a girl she spotted on a fishing trip who embodies the simple, fun life that Mwati craves.
During her time in the village, Mwati plays a barefoot football match and stares down a black mamba, but village life is not what Mwati expected, and when she is ready to go back home, she’s not sure how she will get there.
She’d better hurry. Her grandma is waiting for her in Olso, where she is about to win the prize of her life.
