She was shot dead not by a stranger, by some evil in the dark, some armed burglar. She was shot dead by the man of the house, the man she slept with, the father of her children, her very husband…

Let’s not forget the ghosts of our gun-crazy country.

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...