Counting the Chiperoni

Chiperoni: term for a kind of fog, drizzle rain, experienced in the Shire Highlands of southern Malawi during the cold, dry season; name derived from Mount Chiperone, an isolated mountain peak at the southern extremity of East African mountain ranges, covered with montane forests and surrounded by deciduous woodlands. ‘The sinuous rhythms and arresting imagery in Counting the Chiperoni take us on journeys through landscape and time, along lines of history – political and colonial, personal and c