An Outsider Within
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An Outsider Within

A Memoir of love, of loss, of perseverance

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An Outsider Within

A Memoir of love, of loss, of perseverance

About this book

'In 1966, at the age of 23, I made a life-changing decision.'That decision, to travel from Canada to Zambia to work as a volunteer teacher, did indeed change Mary's life. During her years in Lusaka, she married Edward Ndlovu, an executive member of the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union, who had escaped from Rhodesia in 1964. They married, started a family, and moved to the newly independent Zimbabwe in 1980Over the next 36 years, before retiring to Canada, Mary's life was a blend of politics, teaching, human rights advocacy, and writingNGO histories. The book is particularly candid and insightful about issues of race and culture: raising children of mixed race in an historically segregated educational system; dealing with the responses of traditional medicine to the AIDS epidemic; learning to fit in with a large extended family.Her experience as the widow of a National Hero, and her engagement with a range of civil society organisations, gave her an intimate proximity to political developments in the new Zimbabwe, and she writes of these with clarity, honesty and moral courage.

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Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Dedication
  6. Map of Zimbabwe and neighbouring states
  7. Map of Zimbabwe
  8. Author’s Note
  9. A Lifetime Diversion
  10. School in the Bush
  11. A President’s Visit
  12. Misfit
  13. The University of Zambia
  14. Africa Day and After
  15. Going Home the Roundabout Way
  16. Austrian Interlude
  17. London Limbo
  18. Reluctant Returnee
  19. Development Decade? Questions without Answers
  20. Marking Time – or Preparing for Return?
  21. High Dive
  22. First Steps
  23. Matero Girls School
  24. Tying the Knot
  25. Facing Reality
  26. Settling Down
  27. Becoming a Mother
  28. UNZA Again for Me: Canada for Edward
  29. A Home at Last
  30. University Lecturer
  31. The Political Logjam begins to Crumble
  32. Living in the Shadow of War
  33. Growing Family and Absent Husband
  34. Canadian Holiday
  35. Geneva Conference
  36. Loss of a Leader
  37. Refugees and Militants: the binaries of war
  38. Belonging – or Not
  39. Family Crisis
  40. The War Intensifies
  41. Schooling in Wartime
  42. Hope for Peace at Last
  43. Zimbabwe’s Independence Election – 1980
  44. A Long-Awaited Day
  45. A New Home
  46. Ekhaya
  47. First Year in Zimbabwe
  48. Teacher Again
  49. A Year of Disasters – 1982
  50. Changing Prospects
  51. Producing Thousands of Teachers
  52. ‘Darkness at Noon’
  53. More Loss
  54. A Year of Catastrophes
  55. Pulled in Two Directions
  56. Detention
  57. Prison Walls
  58. Treason
  59. Free Again
  60. Hillside Teachers College – Education Department
  61. Hillside Teachers College – Teaching Practice
  62. Children – Home and School
  63. Beyond School and Home
  64. A Surprise Development
  65. A Big Decision
  66. Dark Clouds
  67. A Hero’s Burial
  68. Picking up the Pieces
  69. Changing World: Changing Zimbabwe
  70. Shrinking Family
  71. Time for a Career Change
  72. A New Work Environment
  73. Widening Horizons
  74. Teaching Human Rights to the Police – Daring the Impossible?
  75. Challenging Times – Breaking the Silence
  76. Zimbabwe Reaches Tipping Point
  77. Tectonic Shifts
  78. Witchcraft – Much More than Magic
  79. Viral Devastation – AIDS on the March
  80. The Next Generations
  81. Struggling towards Democracy
  82. Living a New Normal
  83. New Directions in Work and Family
  84. Fractured Families – Zimbabwean Diaspora
  85. Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA)
  86. Politics Ascendant
  87. Building a Movement
  88. Activist Adventures
  89. Annus Horribilis – 2008
  90. Quadrillionaire
  91. Daring to Believe in Unity
  92. Becoming a Historian
  93. Binga Beckons
  94. Lucky Once More
  95. A Last Throw of the History Dice
  96. Closing the Circle
  97. Epilogue – Remembering Edward
  98. Photos
  99. Back cover