Sarah Mkhonza
Auteur van Weeding the Flowerbeds
Werken van Sarah Mkhonza
Teaching English In Swaziland: Essays On The Life Of Gordon James Thomas (2011) — Auteur — 2 exemplaren
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Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Mkhonza, Sarah
- Officiële naam
- Du Pont, Sarah Thembile
- Geboortedatum
- 1957-05-07
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- Swaziland
- Land (voor op de kaart)
- Eswatini
- Geboorteplaats
- Siphofaneni, Swaziland
- Woonplaatsen
- Palo Alto, California, USA
Mbabane, Swaziland
Siphofaneni, Swaziland - Opleiding
- Michigan State University
Manzini Nazarene High School
Cornell University - Beroepen
- writer
educator
activist
journalist - Organisaties
- Association of African Women
African Book Fund Group - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Oxfam Novib/PEN Award (2005)
Hammett-Hellman Award (2002)
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Weeding the Flowerbeds door Sarah Mkhonza
Nothing more than a diary of a school girl who lives in a boarding school in the Swazi countryside. Written with unusual excitement about all the small things that happen in everyday life, the book doesn't say anything extraordinary.
½
From the title, I kind of expected this to be Mkhonza's reminiscences of being taught by Gordon James Thomas. It's actually a combination of a brief history of teaching in Swaziland (now Eswatini), the author's memories of her education, and an instruction manual for teaching with examples from Thomas' teaching methods. If this was an assignment I was grading, I would mark it down for lack of focus, poor organization, and poorly integrated examples.
Swaziland.
I can't find a single review of this self-published memoir online, which seems strange given that the author is previously published and has been working at Cornell. Weeding the Flowerbeds provides a good look at the daily life of a schoolgirl at a religious boarding school in Swaziland while South Africa still practiced apartheid. These political events are sometimes referenced, but the focus of the book is on the details and recollections of the author. There isn't much contextual information, nor is there a plot or moral--she goes to school, has friends, likes some teachers and not others, and describes in sometimes minute detail the various facets of her mostly-cloistered days. The prose could use an editor's eye, as could the grammar, but one is reading for the account of living in Swaziland, not for literary style.
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I can't find a single review of this self-published memoir online, which seems strange given that the author is previously published and has been working at Cornell. Weeding the Flowerbeds provides a good look at the daily life of a schoolgirl at a religious boarding school in Swaziland while South Africa still practiced apartheid. These political events are sometimes referenced, but the focus of the book is on the details and recollections of the author. There isn't much contextual information, nor is there a plot or moral--she goes to school, has friends, likes some teachers and not others, and describes in sometimes minute detail the various facets of her mostly-cloistered days. The prose could use an editor's eye, as could the grammar, but one is reading for the account of living in Swaziland, not for literary style.
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- 4
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- 19
- Populariteit
- #609,294
- Waardering
- 1.8
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- 3
- ISBNs
- 3