In one hundred ninety-four pages Mararire writes:
“Please remember that your arrival marks the beginning, not the end, of your journey. It is a long and challenging trip. You are a sojourner, there, just passing through. You will eat, study, talk, and travel with friends of European and African origins. it is our hope that you will draw genuine wisdom from each encounter and each adventure. Just remember at the back of your mind you are preparing for very different realities. Their sense of reality is the modern Western world. You, however, have dual citizenship, even global citizenship. You must absorb multiple frames of reality.”
I loaned my original copy to a girl named Maggie in 2008. She happened to be from Zimbabwe. I have not seen it or her since. That is the beauty of home.
Shaunda Holloway-
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