In volume one of her moving and evocative Soul2Soul series, The Battle and Victory of the Soul, South African poet Nozipho Ronalda Zubane chronicles her spiritual awakening and the emotional cleansing that accompanied it. Now, in Setting My Child Soul Free, she delves deeper and further into herself, reconnecting with the child soul she believed was long lost to her.
The resulting collection of twenty-four poems returns both Zubane and her readers to those carefree years before maturity stifled curiosity and rules killed spontaneity-a time when, as Zubane herself says, "Everyone was my relative. Everyone was my friend."
Zubane's journey brings up memories unique to her life, but simultaneously universal in their scope. She asks her readers to consider why we're conditioned to abandon the positive, accepting aspects of childhood in favor of an often judgmental, defensive adulthood. Through memory and humor she offers a guide to reconnecting with our own long-silenced child souls.
Often lighthearted, sometimes heartbreakingly poignant, Setting My Child Soul Free invites you to embrace wonder and uncertainty as old friends, and reminds readers that, in the grand scheme of the universe, we are all children.
About the Author: Nozipho Ronalda Zubane is a South African woman, an attorney, and a poet. She holds a master's degree in commercial and property law from the University of South Africa. Copies of her dissertation on South African land law reforms are available at numerous universities, including Stanford in the United States.
Zubane worked in private practice for five years and corporate South Africa for twelve, reaching positions at the executive level. At the age of forty, she began a spiritual journey that transformed her life and gave rise to her two poetry collections, The Battle and Victory of the Soul and Setting My Child Soul Free.
