Background
J. Nozipo Maraire was born in 1966, in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe).
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J. Nozipo Maraire got her undergraduate degree from Harvard University.
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J. Nozipo Maraire attended the Columbia University College of Physicians.
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J. Nozipo Maraire studied at Yale School of Medicine.
(Written as a letter from a Zimbabwean mother to her daugh...)
Written as a letter from a Zimbabwean mother to her daughter, a student at Harvard, J. Nozipo Maraire evokes the moving story of a mother reaching out to her daughter to share the lessons life has taught her and bring the two closer than ever before.
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1997
J. Nozipo Maraire was born in 1966, in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe).
Physician J. Nozipo Maraire got her undergraduate degree from Harvard University and then attended the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. Soon after she entered a neurosurgery internship at Yale.
As a physician, Maraire has worked with global health entities, including the World Health Organization. She is a full-time practising neurosurgeon, and has initiated neurosurgery programs in several institutions in Delaware, Ohio and Oregon. She divides her time between Zimbabwe and the United States.
Maraire's novel, Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter was written without the intention of publication. Despite Maraire’s modest intentions, Zenzele became an extremely successful novel that was the New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1996. Maraire used the novel as an opportunity to express her perspective on Africa’s promising culture as a young Zimbabwean woman.
Maraire left Zimbabwe during the war. She returned to Zimbabwe before the war ended, during the height of racism and fear. Despite their small numbers, the white inhabitants of Zimbabwe governed the country’s black majority. Living during this time period became extremely difficult for the blacks because they had to gain their freedom from Britain as well as from the white inhabitants of Zimbabwe.
(Written as a letter from a Zimbabwean mother to her daugh...)
1997
Quotations:
“There is not a man in the world who is worth your dignity. Do not confuse self-sacrifice with love.”
“To love is a beautiful, mysterious event; do not miss it. Be neither too cautious nor too absorbed. Too many of us reason with our heart and experience with our heads.”
“Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter.”
Maraire is a public speaker who has been invited to lecture at colleges and universities across the country. Dr. Maraire has spoken to numerous book clubs and civic organizations and served on many literary panels, including being an invited guest of the Gotenberg Literary Festival. She has served on the Board of Directors of several organizations, including The Rotary Foundation, the Ross Ragland Theater and the South North Development Institute. She has worked with and for many development agencies including the World Health Organization, the Norwegian aid agency Norad, and the Synergos Institute. She worked with the Synergos Institute as a consultant and program coordinator and was instrumental in forming community investment funds southern Africa.
Maraire is married to Allen Chiura, a urologist, also from Zimbabwe. They have four children.