The becoming of Mara Makoni

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Q So you were born and brought up in Zimbabwe, what brought you to Britain? I was born the eldest of a family of two, which eventually became an extended family of 8 - with a colourful set of characters (I remember the fights over dishwashing, where we sat in the car or at the dinner table and who got to lead evening prayer at my grandparents'). I lived in Zimbabwe till the age of 16. Just before I turned 171 moved from a boarding school in Mutare, Zimbabwe to one in Dorking, Surrey. The idea was to allow me to better transition into university life abroad. My mum was educated here in the 70s in Newcastle and at that time could identify benefits of uprooting us from Zimbabwe and moving us to the UK.