1966 -
Country of origin: Zimbabwe

Born in Zimbabwe, Maraire studied medicine at Harvard and received her M.D. degree in 1992.  She has recently completed a neurosurgical residency at Yale (only the second woman to have done so since 1925), and plans to return to Zimbabwe to practice (as the first black female neurosurgeon in Africa).  Zenzele has been translated into 13 languages.

Background

Shufro, C. The many worlds of Nozipo Maraire. Yale Medicine. 1999; 1999.

Fiction

Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter (1996)