Petina Gappah

Petina Gappah is a lawyer and writer. Her first book, An Elegy for Easterly won the Guardian First Book Award in 2009 and was a finalist for the Orwell Prize and the LA Times Book Prize. She currently lives in Harare.

Zimbabwe

By January 17, 2012
In this piece from our Writers Bloc project, our collection of essays about education systems around the world, Petina Gappah revisits her childhood schools in Zimbabwe.