Black and Female | 
pickShort book of essays focusing on Dangarembga‘s life experiences, race, and feminism in Zimbabwe and a little in England. I know little to nothing about Zimbabwe, so this was an interesting and enlightening first look.
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pickThis is a little book that packs a big punch. Dangarembga was born into colonialism in Southern Rhodesia and has lived through the transition to independence of Zimbabwe and a violent ruling party. Here she explores the racism and sexism in her country. She has a very interesting perspective.
I did the Christmas Eve thing and opened my presents tonight and I‘m just delighted, Soubhi! Thank you so much! Both your book club fails look really interesting to me, so I suspect I‘ll fare better with them than you did. And that tiny turtle is so darling—I‘m touched that you thought of me while in Italy. Yours will be dropping into the mail on Tuesday, to greet you at your new home!
3 essays by Dangarembga focusing on being black and female and in doing this Dangarembga draws a lot of her own experiences as well.
Being put with foster parents in England when her parents moved there for a time. And how this was common practice for African parents and the children, and that no one the consequences of this.
How hard it was for her to get her first novel published. After reading this collection, I now what to read her novels.
#WeeklyForecast
Continue with the #PemberLittens buddy reads; Villette and Jane Austen‘s Letters.
Continue with the reading of The Christmas Chronicles
I want to finish Black and Female, and The Lives of Others.
And then I‘ll see if there are any more days left in the week.
#BookReport
I continued reading Villette and Jane Austen‘s Letters with #PemberLittens
I continued with reading The Christmas Chronicles.
I finished Shakespeare and Company.
I read The Bullet that Missed and King Kong Theory.
I‘ve started Black and Female and I‘ve just tipped my toes into The Lives of Others.
From the introduction:
“resulted in an increase of the European population from approximately one dozen in 1901, to 9,651 in 1921, against roughly 2.5 million Africans”
“Africans in the country were afforded the right to purchase land without competition from the settlers in only 7 per cent of the country.”
This came in the mail today. It will be a few months before I get to it I think, but I‘m looking forward to reading it. I‘m hoping to get more insight into her trilogy of novels as well as her perspective on the continuing effects of colonialism.
