Confidence Joseph's study seeks to interrogate the representations of water spirits in southern African cultural texts (novels, poems, short stories, songs and TV shows). For a long time, stories told about the African and Africa have been about the nation, claiming of land both legally and illegally, projects of reclaiming humanity and dignity. What happens when we decenter the land in all these narratives and allow for a turn towards watery spaces? By virtue of being free from national borders, water and these water spirits open up new ways of reading and understanding narratives about Southern Africa (Zimbabwe, Mozambique and South Africa). Drawing on the unboundedness, elusiveness and slippery nature of water spirits and the theme of the unknown, the invisible, the feared and the unfamiliar which has been linked to water bodies, Joseph wonders if one can start thinking differently about notions of belonging, time, space, environment and politics? Do the water gods make us re-imagine gender in any way? To help explore these themes, she draws on three bodies of work, African water mythologies, Posthuman Ecocriticism and works on Enchanted Modernities.