![]() ![]() ![]() Before initiating the armed standoff, the general ensures that Rita, Kuda, and Tendai are safe in a reinforced estate. The Ear, the Eye and the Arm begins at the onset of a campaign launched by Zimbabwe’s Chief of Security, General Matsika, to eradicate crime from the country. The novel belongs in the literary subgenre of Afrofuturism, which examines Africa in the historical context of the African Diaspora, and speculates about its possible futures given the acceleration of technological change. To help rescue them, the children’s parents recruit three mutant detectives with supernatural powers named Ear, Eye, and Arm. ![]() The siblings, Rita, Kuda, and Tendai, use their smarts to navigate the city’s dangerous underbelly and discover for themselves the importance of human rights and freedoms. Set in 2194, it follows three children held by a ruthless Zimbabwean general who tries to escape their captors in the country’s dense and crime-ridden capital, Harare. The Ear, the Eye and the Arm is a 1994 science fiction novel for young adults by Nancy Farmer. ![]()
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