{"id":283,"date":"2021-03-15T18:59:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T18:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/?page_id=283"},"modified":"2022-01-09T09:36:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T09:36:02","slug":"blue-remembered-sky","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/march-2021-volume-503\/blue-remembered-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Remembered Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marieke Faber Clarke<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>The library has now acquired a copy of ‘Blue Remembered Sky’ by Charlie Comins. Comins is one of several pseudonyms used by Kate MacFarlane. When Kate and I first met several years ago at Oxford Friends Meeting, Kate revealed that she had been brought up in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, at a time when the country was under white colonial rule. Her father had been a psychiatrist in the notorious mental hospital called Ingutsheni. Using the pseudonym K.M.R. Smythe, Kate had written but not yet published a first book, called ‘The Secret World of Shlomo Fine’, about her upbringing alongside that dreadful institution. I put Kate in touch with Pathisa Nyathi, a historian and publisher friend in Bulawayo, who subsequently brought out ‘The Secret World of Shlomo Fine’ in 2018.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Kate, who lives near Oxford, has now self-published a second book, ‘Blue Remembered Sky’ (New Generation Publishing 2020), which concentrates more on psychiatry as a means of oppression, particularly of the black majority in Rhodesia. There were of course many other means of oppression in that country, before Zimbabwe gained its independence in 1980.<\/p>\n

As I was deported by the white Rhodesian rulers while I was teaching at an African secondary school near Bulawayo, I am delighted that Kate has written these two books exposing what it was like for a young white girl to grow up in that country.<\/p>\n

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‘The Secret World of Shlomo Fine’
\n(K.M.R. Smythe) is available via The African Books Collective.<\/p>\n

‘Blue Remembered Sky’ (Charlie Comins)
\nis available via The Book Depository and Bookshop.org.<\/p>\n

Kate donates a proportion of income from sales of both books to Pathisa Nyathi and the Amagugu International Heritage Centre in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n

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Back to March 2021 Newsletter Main Page<\/a><\/p>\n

Forty-Three<\/em> e-Newsletter \u2022 Number 503 \u2022 March 2021
\n<\/strong>Oxford Friends Meeting
\n43 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW<\/p>\n

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