Chimurenga - Wendy Wright

Rhodesia, 1972.tessa Harmand Is Nine-years-old When A Humiliating Experience Forever Alters Her Nave Perception Of The Society In Which She Lives, Forcing Her To Question Her Own Attitude To Her Black Compatriots - An Attitude She's Inherited From Her Elders.nathan Owen Is Twelve-years-old, Dark Haired And Inscrutable. To Tessa, He Is A Dead-pan, Distant Ghost Flitting Into View And Then Dissolving In A Blink. But An Odd Conversation With Him Only Serves To Heighten Tessa's New And Unwelcome Awareness Of The Political Uncertainty.as The First Whisperings Of The Armed Struggle That Will Transform Rhodesia Into Zimbabwe Gradually Invade Tessa's Daily Life, The Adults In Her World Remain Oddly Dismissive, Even As Civil War Becomes An Inescapable Reality.