Sarah Mkhonza (Livres)

Sarah Mkhonza Livres

Sarah Mkhonza crée des récits qui éclairent le sort des opprimés, en particulier des femmes, dans le but de toucher un large public. Ses récits, souvent des fictions journalistiques inspirées de situations réelles, plongent dans la vie de la classe ouvrière pauvre du Swaziland, reflétant ses propres origines. À travers son écriture, qui critique sans crainte la monarchie absolue, elle cherche à informer ses concitoyens sur des questions sociales vitales. Son parcours littéraire est marqué par un engagement en faveur de la liberté d'expression et par le soutien à l'éducation africaine.

Weeding the Flowerbeds

180pages
7 heures de lecture

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Weeding the Flowerbeds is a memoir of boarding school at Manzini Nazarene High School in Swaziland, a country in Southern Africa. In this book Sarah explores life in the boarding school at Manzini Nazarene High School, a school that produced many graduates. She explores life in an educational institution where growing up is takes place under strict hostel rules in the seventies. As young Swazi girls Bulelo, Sisile and Makhosi grow up learning about life and Christianity. They learn to love school and also to appreciate writing and literature. All the time they feel as if they are being pushed in a certain direction and it is one of the teachers Mr. Fields and others who come to the school and make them understand the importance of choosing to be free in ones spirit. With all that education they leave the school and go and live their lives.