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Peace of the Senses: How to Fight the FAGS

Book
2024
summary
Peace of the Senses: How to Fight the FAGS is a collection of interlinked photographs that deals with the human story in several existential perspectives, especially how we find joy and happiness in difficult circumstances in life. Thus the images in this book celebrate human life, makes funny of difficult situations we go through. There is an element of the comedian in the photos, and it sometimes would create huge howls of laughter, sometimes chuckles and smiles. We go with the adage laughter is the best medicine in this work, and I believe this creates the peace of the senses, as the title presupposes. A set of common themes and philosophical questions permeates the book, bringing the narrative together as an author’s self-interrogation through invented others. Detecting the thematic threads whilst paying attention to the differences requires one to experience the book both horizontally and vertically, following a narrative that seems as much widening as deepening.

Table of Contents

Cover

Title page

pp. 1-2

Contents

pp. 3-6

Introduction

pp. 7-8

Part 1: The Bearer Nation

pp. 8-9

A Stack of Firewood

pp. 10

Holding the Bearer Nation

pp. 11

Cooking with the Bearers

pp. 12

Part 2: Food And Feedings

pp. 13

Matohwe

pp. 14

Uncorked Nyembwe

pp. 15

Cooked Nyembwe

pp. 16

Cooked Sweet Potatoes

pp. 17

Preparing Covo Vegetables for relish

pp. 18

I would rather choose food

pp. 19

Wedding Takeaways

pp. 20

Biscuits, Popcorn, and Snacks Mixture

pp. 21

Munch Time

pp. 22

Freezits drink

pp. 23

What happened to all that food, I am still hungry

pp. 24

Part 3: Let's Dance

pp. 25

Trombone

pp. 26

Small Shaker

pp. 27

Medium Shaker

pp. 28

Bigger shaker

pp. 29

Nyunganyunga Mbira

pp. 30

Small Marimba

pp. 31

Large Marimba

pp. 32

Ngoma

pp. 33

Museve dance

pp. 34

Dad is at work

pp. 35

Part 4: Let the T-shirt Speak

pp. 36

What's your excuse

pp. 37

Kiss me

pp. 38

This is what perfect looks like

pp. 39

Meet your two new friends

pp. 40

I am trying to keep up!

pp. 41

Part 5: The Story Tellers: Nothing to tell, we are showing it!

pp. 42

Click On Game

pp. 43

Daylight Spectre

pp. 44

I can cycle backwards

pp. 45

Art

pp. 46

The Gravel Maker

pp. 47

Hop in

pp. 48

Father and Son

pp. 49

Part 6: Cute Little Things

pp. 50

I can smile for the camera

pp. 51

What's your trick Mr Cameraman

pp. 52

Father and Daughter

pp. 53

From the Gutters of Chitown

pp. 54

I am watching you

pp. 55

Young Love

pp. 56

I Have No One

pp. 57

Hahaha

pp. 58

Ngoko…

pp. 59

Part 7: Groups and Places

pp. 60

Home

pp. 61

Seeking God

pp. 62

Deep Dusk

pp. 63

The Setting Sun and the Rolling World

pp. 64

Welcome to Harare

pp. 65

Inner Roots of the Trees' Mind

pp. 66

These Clothes are so Dirty, Babe

pp. 67

The Sun's Rays on the Street Sweeper

pp. 68

Let's Compete

pp. 69

Part 8: Twos

pp. 70

Give me some love

pp. 71

Growing Old With You

pp. 72

Wait Mr Cameraman

pp. 73

Twins

pp. 74

We can Listen to Music Telepathically

pp. 75

We Fit Together

pp. 76

After Palm Sunday Walk

pp. 77

We are not Twins

pp. 78

Friends

pp. 79

We belong

pp. 80

We haven't just met

pp. 81

I like her you

pp. 82

Part 9: Threes

pp. 83

Double Whammy

pp. 84

Wife and her two Husbands

pp. 85

Me and my Mothers

pp. 86

Bonga Clan

pp. 87

Me and My Parents

pp. 88

Part 10: I Can Pose For A Camera

pp. 89

Sleep Standing, Meditation

pp. 90

I can pose for a camera

pp. 91

One eyed god

pp. 92

Sleeping Beauty

pp. 93

Shut up Tendai

pp. 94

Hip Hop Chick

pp. 95

The Laughing Hand

pp. 96

The Frowning Hand

pp. 97

Like we don't care

pp. 98

I am Ugly

pp. 99

Part 11: Signs of When Water Comes

pp. 100

Facing the Kopje Area

pp. 101

Facing the Flyover

pp. 102

When Water Comes

pp. 103

When it rains

pp. 104

In her kitchen

pp. 105

Laundry day

pp. 106

Part 12: Organized Light

pp. 107

Exorcising the Ghosts

pp. 108

Let the Fire Burn

pp. 109

Embers

pp. 110

Lighting the Passover Fire

pp. 111

Slivers of Light

pp. 112

Light and Rain

pp. 113

Candle Mass at St Agnes Zengeza

pp. 114-116

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