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WEEDING THE FLOWERBEDS by Sarah Mkhonza from Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) is the author’s memoir of the years she spent in the early 1970’s at a private boarding school located on a Christian mission in Eswatini
Bulelo, as she is known in the book, and her two friends, Makhosi and Sisile, persevere in academics but chafe under the rules set by the hierarchical administration at Manzini Nazarene High School.
They also struggle to determine the role that Christianity—which is imposed on them through daily worship services—will play in their lives on their own terms.
Sarah Mkhonza deserves admiration as a woman from a developing African nation who managed to produce a book about her experiences receiving an education in the era shortly after her country gained its independence.
Therefore, her voice and perspective deserve to be heard.
The book is available on Amazon.com
