Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter

I love everything about this book!!! It should be a must read for every young black woman before they venture off into the world.

It's a timeless letter from a Zimbabwean mother to her daughter, a student at Harvard. Each chapter contains a conversation from the mother to her daughter, giving her some life lessons, family history, folk lore so she doesn't lose her roots, her culture, and the values her family and village have instilled in her before her flight to America.She shares the lessons she learned growing up in Zimbabwe when it was Rhodesia, the segregation between the blacks and the whites, her disappointments and her hopes. What it means to be a proud citizen of Zimbabwe. She shares what she learned from her mother-in-law on her wedding day in what it means to be an African woman.She writes of the struggles by the men and women who fought for Zimbabwe's independence, including Zenzele's father, an activist lawyer and Zenzele's Aunt Linda, a guerilla fighter, and a cousin who was a spy while working as a maid. The reminiscences are poignant as they are vivid.You feel so much love flowing from each sentence you want to reach out and embrace the woman writing them tightly to your heart.

The book is very good and the condition of the book was as advertised (not sure if this is supposed to be a review of the text of the quality of the transaction) shipped on time and arrived on time. but the book itself is very moving, It did start off a bit dull for my taste, but once it hit it's stride there was a vigor that you fell in love with.

This is a phenomenal book, it brought me to tears. I hope one day if I have a daughter to pass this book on to her as my mom did to me. This is a fairly quick but thought provoking and engaging read.

This book is at the top of my list for women to read--young and mature ,and of all ethnic backgrounds. I have gifted it to my most special relatives and friends, especially as high school and college graduation gifts!

This is one of my most favorite stories. I have bought many copies of the title to give as graduation & special occasion gifts to the dear young women I know!

I absolutely loved this book! Its beautifully written from the perspective of a mother who has witnessed so much change and has a bright and remarkable daughter. Many pearls of wisdom to be taken from this book and it also conveys how colonialism affected Africans in Zimbabwe. A lovely book that I will definitely reread!

In the format of a letter to her daughter who is headed for am American university befo , the writer informs her daughter--and all of us--about life and customs in Zimbabwe during and after its struggle for independence. In the process, author J. Nozipo Maraire raises questions about what Westernized Africans owe to their homeland.

Beautifully written. Thoroughly enjoyed this book. Lots of life lessons learnt. Highly recommended.

Beautifully written book with pearls of wisdom. It captured me from start to finish and i will definitely read it again.

I read a library copy and I loved it so much that I wanted my own copy to give to my daughter.

Excellent book, recommended read

Very very interesting read