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... Zenzele is her literary debut. ...
This is a touching, warmly told story of a Zimbabwean family, as revealed through a mothers letters to her daughter, Zenzele, on Zenzeles immanent departure to study at Harvard. As her daughter enters a new world, a mother shares the riches of her own through stories of her personal experience and those of her generation. She writes of Zimbabwe¡¯s struggle for independence, and of the men and women who shapedit: Zenzele¡¯s father, an outspoken activist lawyer; her aunt, a schoolteacher by day and a secret guerrilla fighter by night; and her cousin, a maid and a spy.
Approximate Word count = 483 Approximate Pages = 1.9 (250 words per page double spaced)
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