The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo, Peter Orner‘s beautiful novel set at a boys’ school in Namibia during the early 1990s, will be released tomorrow. If you didn’t catch it the first time around, get it now.

Related: an interesting piece by Binyavanga Wainaina in the June issue of Harper’s, excerpted from the “Glory,” which appeared in the Spring issue of Bidoun. You can read Wainaina’s essay in its entirety on the Bidoun web site. A taste:

One day, when I was twelve years old, in a small public school in Nakuru, the whole student body was called out of class. Some very blond and serious people from Sweden had arrived. We were led to the round patch of grass in front of the school. Next to the flagpole were two giant drums of cow shit, metal pipes, and other unfamiliar accessories. We stood around, heard some burping sounds, and behold, there was light.

You might also be interested in visiting the website of Kwani?, the literary magazine edited by Wainaina.