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What if you knew that this life was not the end for you? If you knew there was an afterlife, would you live differently now? This book asks how you would have lived life differently if some things you knew about life were reversed. The aim of this book is to help people realize that when a person's life comes to an end, there is only light, love, and unadulterated joy.

Believe in Spirit: You are Spirit in Human Form by Steve Bridger, and Janet Neville is divided into two parts. The first part of this book is "The Earth Life Chapters," and it concerns our material life as spirits in human form. The second part, "The After Life Chapters," introduces the readers to the world of Spirit. The lessons in this book were conveyed to Janet Neville directly and unaltered by a team of spirit guides. She is a Medium and serves as a link that connects our two worlds. We can learn about our spirituality and the role that Spirit plays in our daily lives by reading the messages that were written down exactly as they were conveyed to us by Spirit.

I love the simplicity of the language that was used to write this book. It will be absolutely easy for anyone to read and understand it. The tone used in the book is also gentle and seeks to inform the reader. There were many questions posed, and those questions are ones people ask every day. There are questions about life, death, mortality, Spirit, etc. Those questions were gently discussed and answered, bringing clarity to them.

I will say that I have really learned a lot from this book. There has been a bit of a mindset shift for me concerning spiritual terms. I was able to see some of the questions lurking in my mind in this book, and I gained insights into them. Some stories were also shared in this book that will make you see that Spirit is not a fallacy.

This book explains that when our physical body dies, our spiritual body moves on. The purpose of this book is to prove that life continues after death. I love the way this book is divided into smaller segments within the chapters. It makes it easy to capture the different things that are being discussed in the book. We also see how Mediums receive their messages from the Spirit and pass them on accordingly. I also loved the descriptive images that were used in this book. The author went to all lengths to make sure that this book would be easy to understand and assimilate.

The only thing I disliked about Believe in Spirit: You are Spirit in Human Form was that it did not contain a table of contents. This made navigating through the book very hard for me. I also encountered a few errors in the book, which shows that it was professionally edited. However, these negative aspects are minor and not enough for me to reduce the rating. Therefore, I am rating this book 5 out of 5 stars.

For everyone that is curious about what happens after death, what "Spirit" really means for us humans, and any other questions about life in terms of spirituality, I would recommend that you read this book. It is thought-provoking and will lead you to think differently about life.

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Believe in Spirit

Book Review: NERVOUS CONDITIONS by Tsitsi Dangarembga (1988).

"Being a black woman is like being black twice!"

The first book to be written by a Zimbabwean female author in English, Dangarembga's "semi-autobiographical" account – a fictionalised version of her life growing up in both Zimbabwe and England – is an impeccable recollection of a handful of struggles afflicting the average young black woman on the receiving end of racism, negativity, isolation and PATRIARCHY, amongst other things.

Tambudzai, the main character is of an unmoved, apathetic countenance after she and her family receive the tragic news of her brother's passing at the mission school where her uncle, "Babamukuru", works as a headmaster. Noting her father's insidious cynicism and her mother's hapless indifference towards her big ideas, she takes matters into her own hands by deciding that she wants to go to school, and by any means possible, in spite of her father's refusal to pay the fees required for her tuition.

From selling mealies in the bustling city of Salisbury (now known as Harare), her journey towards education commences. The only semblance of support she enjoys is from the man who drives her to the city every morning. Her father was a problem on his own because to him, his daughter was merely clutching at straws with her goal to become just like her brother, Nhamo, if not better. Nhamo (who later passes away) compounds on her tribulations by giving away all her mealies to his friends without her permission, a transgression which led to a huge fight in an open field in front of all and sundry, and further tongue-lashings from adult witnesses who opined that it's not good for siblings to be at each other's throats.

So, when Nhamo kicked the bucket, she instead saw an opportunity to escape the hard, arduous life of walking to the river Nyamarira to collect water with heavy drums and eating only sadza and vegetables without any meat. In other words, her brother's death, was also her big break.

Throughout the novel, she finds herself constantly adjusting to her new surroundings. Not knowing what a nightdress was used for was only the beginning, and along the lines, she discovers from her cousin (later, best friend) Nyasha, that it was more ideal to lose her "virginity" to a tampon instead of an adolescent fool who wore the "defilement" of his victims like a "badge of honour."

Alternating between life at the mission and life at the homestead, and later, life at the Girls' School run by the cheery White nuns with their wide smiles and their frilly skirts, the farrago of different conditions fill her with all sorts of emotions, and ultimately, a girl trying to surpass the norms and the rules that kept her asking questions.

As fate would have it, I took to reading Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's 21-page booklet; "We Should All Be Feminists", and when she said that women are taught to shrink themselves, she really wasn't lying. Maiguru, the wife of Babamukuru was just as educated as her husband, and yet, she deigned into settling for a job as a teacher and as the house executive of the family home at the mission, all for the sake of marriage. Babamukuru, a piously religious patriarch who leads the Sigauke family with a firm fist, uses Tambudzai's meek docility and courteous subservience as a model figure to what a "real woman" should be, and the type of woman he wished his unrepentantly rebellious daughter, Nyasha, would become if she wasn't too exposed to the ways of the white people she encountered in England.

Tambudzai's mother, Ma'Shingayi, suffers the most from this somewhat oppressive system. Everyone else around her, except her feisty firecracker sister Lucia, appears to be tone-deaf to her festering agony. She endured leaving her father's house at the age of 15 to live in squalor with a man who spends the little he has on cheap beer and revelries imbibed in drunken stupor. On top of that, she lost her son, Nhamo, her daughter became fussy and priggish, and was forced to wear a veil at her advanced age for a wedding she was strongly against.

When the men made decisions, all the women were excluded apart from Tete Gloria, and the women felt like they were only a part of the family when it suited the men.

Nyasha, whom I believe is a mirror of Tsitsi's upbringing, was the only female who couldn't be controlled by Babamukuru. As for the others (the men included), Babamukuru was their Messiah. Even the free-spirited Lucia, who for the life of her could never settle down with a man because of what society thought about her, was swayed by Babamukuru's modest acts of largesse. This woman pulled the ears of a man while the men were talking amongst themselves, yet she bowed down submissively to Babamukuru because of his high status in the family.

The racial aspect also affects the trajectory of the story significantly. Words like "munt", and "k*ffir" make an unwanted appearance in the book, citing how many African people living in those times were wont to believing that white was right. The injection of religion influences Babamukuru's approach to many African intricacies, which, according to his white overlords, were taboo and abomination. His children were not spared either. When Nyasha and Chido went to the homestead the first time, they could barely utter a few words in Shona; a common "Nyamashewe" was too much for them to handle. He had a Caucasian girlfriend, and Nyasha – by way of her preference of "bounce to bones" – fell for the Eurocentric definition of beauty, under the impression that she wanted to remain "svelte and sensuous."

Black-on-black hatred was briefly visited too. When news emerged that Tambudzai won the scholarship to study at the Girls' School, her close friends seemingly turn their back on her, and the cramming of six African students in a room meant for four people at the Girls' School was a clear reminder of her place not just as a woman, but as a BLACK woman above all.

NERVOUS CONDITIONS is a translucent telling of the African mind undergoing a loss of identity because of colonisation and imperialism, and the cross that black woman carry as they stand by their Black Men who enjoy the fringe benefits of the crumbs of patriarchy after White colonial rule stripped of their dignity by taking their land and their economy. Tsitsi wrote this ebullient piece with the mind of a woman who was woman enough to put the struggles of the black women first on her agenda (a case of African feminism), while bearing in mind the effects that the white colonial power had on the minds of black men who were at the mercy of being whitewashed completely.

NERVOUS CONDITIONS is completely deserving of its place in Time's 2018 list of The 100 Books That Shaped The World, and it is a certain must read for any enthusiast of African Literature who knows the pain of the black man from Ngugi Wa Thiongo's Weep Not, Child, and wants a further understanding of black female pain that coalesces with black male pain, beyond When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head.

RATING: 4/5.

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