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Author Katjavivi, Jane

Title Undisciplined heart / Jane Katjavivi
Published Windhoek : Tigereye Publishing, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (300 pages)
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Part 1. Embracing Namibia; Part 2. The pit of death; Part 3. A whole new world; Part 4. Listening to the wind; Postscript; Acknowledgements; Back Cover
Summary When Jane Katjavivi becomes involved in London in support of change in Southern Africa, she meets and marries a Namibian activist in exile. Moving with him to Namibia at the time of Independence in 1990, she faces a new life in a starkly beautiful country. She starts to publish Namibian writing and opens a bookshop
In Windhoek she develops friendships with a group of strong, independent women, who have also come from other countries, and are engaged in different ways to overcome the divisions of the past. Over coffee, drinks and food, they support each other through times of happiness and sadness, through juggling careers and family, and through illness and death
When her husband is made Ambassador to the Benelux countries and the European Union, and later Berlin, Jane has to build a new identity as the wife of an ambassador, and come to terms with her own ill-health without her friends around her to support her
Set against the backdrop of the historical, political and social development of newly independent Namibia, Undisciplined Heart tells the story of Jane's love for her family, friends and her adopted country, in a gentle and honest way that reflects the joys and tragedies of life
Jane Katjavivi's frank and intimate memoir of love and politics, of survival and finding way to make a home, shows that history is also what heals when it is filtered through a loving heart and an open mind-Margie Orford --Book Jacket
Notes Print version record
Subject Katjavivi, Jane
SUBJECT Katjavivi, Jane
Katjavivi, Jane fast
Subject Ambassadors' spouses -- Namibia -- Biography
Heart -- Diseases -- Patients -- Biography
Women -- Namibia -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Africa -- South -- General.
HISTORY -- Africa -- South -- Republic of South Africa.
Ambassadors' spouses
Heart -- Diseases -- Patients
Women
SUBJECT Namibia -- Biography
Subject Namibia
Genre/Form collective biographies.
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781920397814
1920397817