Yvonne Vera: The Fearless Taboo Queen"I am against silence, the books I write try to undo the silent posture African women have endured over so many decades.” -Yvonne Vera.Yvonne was born in 1964 and raised in Zimbabwe’s second largest city Bulawayo during British colonial and then Rhodesian minority oppression. Though Yvonne was somewhat graced by her families prominent status, her father was a prosperous well connected businessman and her uncle a former local football star and manager of a top hotel. Together they were both politically involved and friends of Joshua Nkomo who would become a pivotal figure in the 2nd Chimurenga or Zimbabwean Liberation Struggle. Her mother was a school teacher and early on extended her love of books over to her daughter to take up the mantle. Read More
