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#weekendreads

📕For the first time in a long while I am reading the #NancyDrewBR selection on time! 😅

📗”Don‘t Let‘s Go…” is a #Roll100 pick for October 👍

📘”Await Your Reply” is left over from #14Books14Weeks ! 😬

The 3rd book in the trilogy about Tambudzai

While the 2 first books had quite an innocent look at the world, this one is more brutal. It starts with a sexual harassment scene of a female passenger on a bus.

Tambudzai is trying to navigate life in the city after the independence war in a world where white people still has the power.

The book also focuses on mentally breakdown, mental health and the cliches white people have of Africa

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A pen pal exchange changed the lives of two teenagers from entirely different backgrounds.

124/357

Short 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.

#ReadtheWorld2025 #Zimbabwe

3/5
Very well-written autobiography about her childhood spent in Africa (Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi). Her sensory descriptions are excellent. However, despite of all that, I wasn't taken by it. I wasn't interested... I guess I would have preferred more in-depth introspection.

The 2nd book about Tambu and it‘s her 2nd year at Young Ladies‘s College of the Sacred Heart. We follow her through school and a few years after, with a civil war in the background and later The New Zimbabwe. Is the new Zimbabwe any different than the old one when it comes to Tambu‘s opportunities?

A book about colonialism, about how it‘s easier being a European to succeed and women‘s opportunities

I‘m ready for the 3rd book about Tambu

1968 on the countryside in Zimbabwe, and Tambu grows up on her family‘s farm where women are responsible for the garden, the food and the kids. This year her brother dies, and suddenly a new opportunity opens up for her - attending the missionary school

A book about race, class, the different expectations between the sexes, hierarchy inside a family and friendship.

I loved this so much that I‘m already on the hold list for the next book