The account illustrates how the environment of the city reflects and embodies the urban policies and economy of a colonial state. It reflects on the city's inequalities of income and the emerging pressures on housing, facilities and services. Not only documenting recent pressures, the study also explores ways in which local authorities are attempting to come to terms with the problems. This book reinstates culture and history into nature. She explains the role of healers and healing during the War of Liberation in Zimbabwe, and documents the effects of the war on children.
Numerous appendices offer statistics, and personal and press accounts of the war.
An unforgettable picture of contemporary Zimbabwe seen from the perspective of an African woman returning to her country after many years of living in the West. She also offers a moving account of the impact of AIDS on her family, deforestation, drought, and the breakdown of traditional structures. Embedded in the book is a concept of education as an active process of doing, of experiencing life with all the senses, and learning through interaction with others. All rights reserved .