Women’s History Month reminds us that women have played and continue to play crucial and indispensable roles in struggles for liberation. The same was true of the struggle for the liberation of Southern Africa, from Queen Nzinga to Josina Machel, Ruth First, Miriam Makeba, and countless others.
With this in mind, I’m particularly proud that the women of “Beyond Southern Africa, A Story of the Fight for Freedom” are not also-rans or unimportant figures, but are central to the novel and its unfolding. They play critical roles throughout the development of the story and of its two leading protagonists. Indeed, by the time the novel ends, it becomes clear that women have transformed the story and, by implication, the wider struggle it depicts.
We honor ourselves when we pay tribute to the role that women play in the continuing struggle for justice and freedom.
Beyond Southern Africa 