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Audiobooks. Autobiographies. bibliography biography Essays. Folk novel Psychological fiction.Nyamayaro, Elizabeth
Summary: "The inspiring journey of a girl from Africa whose near-death experience sparked a dream that changed the world. When severe draught hit her village in Zimbabwe, Elizabeth, then eight, had no idea that this moment of utter devastation would come to define her life purpose. Unable to move from hunger, she encountered a United Nations aid worker who gave her a bowl of warm porridge and saved her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NYAMAYARO, ELIZABETH NYAFuller, Alexandra
Summary: In this sequel to Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, the author returns to Africa and the story of her unforgettable family. In this book she braids a multilayered narrative around the perfectly lit, Happy Valley era Africa of her mother's childhood; the boiled cabbage grimness of her father's English childhood; and the darker, civil war torn Africa of her own childhood. At its heart, this is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FULLER, NICOLA FULFuller, Alexandra
Summary: In this sequel to Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, the author returns to Africa and the story of her unforgettable family. In this book she braids a multilayered narrative around the perfectly lit, Happy Valley era Africa of her mother's childhood; the boiled cabbage grimness of her father's English childhood; and the darker, civil war torn Africa of her own childhood. At its heart, this is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 FULLER, NICOLA FulDangarembga, Tsitsi
Summary: "In Black and Female, Tsitsi Dangarembga examines the legacy of imperialism on her own life and on every aspect of black embodied African life. This paradigm-shifting essay collection weaves the personal and political in an illuminating exploration of race and gender. Dangarembga recounts a painful separation from her parents as a toddler, connecting this experience to the ruptures caused in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.48 DANLessing, Doris May
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flamingo 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LESLessing, Doris May
Summary: Intelligent, sensitive, and fiercely passionate, Martha Quest is a young woman living on a farm in Africa, feeling her way through the torments of adolescence and early womanhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LESLessing, Doris May
Summary: Feeling trapped and alienated by her husband, Martha Quest must choose between the security of marriage and the sacrifices of independence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LESGappah, Petina
Summary: Memory, the narrator of Petina Gappah's The Book of Memory, is an albino woman languishing in Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison in Harare, Zimbabwe, after being sentenced for murder. As part of her appeal, her lawyer insists that she write down what happened as she remembers it. The death penalty is a mandatory sentence for murder, and Memory is, both literally and metaphorically, writing for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAPDobkin, Alix.
Contents: Yahoo Australia -- Shameless hussies -- Lesbian code -- Intimacy -- Women of Ireland -- Women singing in Zimbabwe -- Crushes -- Ot azoi neyt a schnayder -- Hedda on TV -- The girls want to be with the girls -- New ground.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Women's Wax Works 1990