{"id":31543,"date":"2017-09-06T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=31543"},"modified":"2017-09-05T08:59:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T13:59:50","slug":"meet-maria-nhambu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/meet-maria-nhambu\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Maria Nhambu"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Last fall I\u00a0wrote about\u00a0Maria\u00a0Nhambu\u2019s memoir, Africa’s Child<\/a>. You can read my blog about it here<\/a>. It tells the story of how she grew up as an orphaned, mixed-race child in Tanzania. The first book in the Dancing Soul Trilogy, Africa’s Child<\/a> is as heartbreaking as it is inspiring. It leaves you wondering where she went from there.<\/p>\n

I am thrilled to share that the second book, called America’s Daughter<\/a>, has been published. In it, Nhambu chronicles what it was like for her leaving Africa. She was\u00a0eighteen years old with a newly-adoptive mother who was barely four\u00a0years older than her.\u00a0She found a vastly\u00a0different culture in\u00a0America and began building a new life\u00a0in it.<\/p>\n

Laugh and cry with her as she recalls the many differences between Tanzania and Minnesota. She reveres education as\u00a0her key to escaping\u00a0a life of poverty and oppression. It is no surprise that she chose a career as an educator (at one point, she\u00a0taught\u00a0a soon-to-be famous musician named Prince Rogers Nelson.) Nhambu has a love for music, especially African music. She went on to create a program called Aerobics With Soul. It\u00a0incorporates African dance into a\u00a0fitness workout.<\/p>\n

Nhambu still spends summers in Minnesota,\u00a0but lives in Delray Beach, Florida during the winter. Thanks to family ties she has to the Quad Cities, she will be visiting us at Eastern on Saturday, Sept 9 at 10:30am to share her story with us in person. Joining her will be her adoptive mother and sister. Refreshments and copies of her books will be available. If we are lucky, there will be dancing. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Nhambu is a gifted storyteller whose candor\u00a0has made me cry, then cheer for her. Come meet a fascinating woman whose\u00a0indomitable spirit has proven that love truly does conquer all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last fall I\u00a0wrote about\u00a0Maria\u00a0Nhambu\u2019s memoir, Africa’s Child. You can read my blog about it here. It tells the story of how she grew up as an orphaned, mixed-race child in Tanzania. The first book in the Dancing Soul Trilogy, Africa’s Child is as heartbreaking as it is inspiring. It leaves[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7,14,11,1,8],"tags":[2068,4330,1536,4332,4331,4333,4329,3752,888,3750],"class_list":["post-31543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-library-classes","category-library-news","category-music","category-reference","category-staff-picks","tag-adoption","tag-africas-child","tag-african-americans","tag-african-culture","tag-americas-daughter","tag-american-culture","tag-dancing-soul-trilogy","tag-maria-nhambu","tag-minnesota","tag-tanzania"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-8cL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31543"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31582,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31543\/revisions\/31582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}