In Cynthia Marangwanda’s The Toppling, just like in her first offering, Shards, a terrible beauty is born… simultaneously horrifying and aesthetically pleasing, evoking a mixture of awe, fear, and admiration. Marangwanda still has the same incredible ability to turn history inside out. On meeting Cecil John Rhodes in an out of body experience, a young woman embarks on a whole quest to right the wrongs from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe..