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As I have stated numerous times before, I am a huge proponent of education. Dangarembga's book is primarily about one young girl's quest to become educated in 1960s Rhodesia post-colonization. Dangarembga does a nice job of telling this girl's story and contrasting it with the other women in her life. The book advocates education as the path to economic advancement, but it also shows the struggle of a country trying to maintain its identity when it has been subject to outside influences that are
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This was an interesting look into the turn-of-independence Rhodesia from a post-colonial perspective. Of course, Nyasha and Lucia are my favourite characters for their feistiness of spirit.
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