how to be a heroine?
A Mozambique girl Nhamo had no chance to go to school . An unexpected epidemic changed her life from poverty and danger into a fulfilled life. How?
By facing all the dangerous in the wild for one year, she came to a new world.
How do you face hard, painful, and uncertain life?
Like Robinson Crusoe, she is a real hero. She almost has everything needed for becoming a successful woman, such as her excellent creativity, great working capacity, courage, and persistence in overcoming obstacles. She was such a coward when she encounter a period the first time, she regretted yet ate her words and sailed on after the event. By showing her shortcomings, we feel that she is a real person.
How can an orphan grow into a hero? Her mother met a Zimbabwe worker but her father left after he beat a man to death. Her mother had her but eaten by a leopard which gave her the name “disaster”. When an epidemic broke out, she was forced to marry an old man who had two old wives. Her grandma believed she must be beaten to death within one year. The witch doctor said she was the only reason for the epidemic and everyone believed him except her grandmother.
Do you have the courage to challenge beliefs of the public?
At night, her grandmother gave her a bag of gold nugget and told her how to use a river as guidance to Zimbabwe to find her father’s family in three days.
She believed her grandmother and stole a boat at night with a bag of food and mere knowledge of survival. When she went to the river, she discovered hungry hippos, crocodiles and other animals trying to kill her and dealing with the fear of becoming a woman.
Will you have the courage to take risk to live in the river alone with little practical skill?
In her tribe, after period, her cousin will get married and have babies with big celebration. Nhamo had no one around and only talked with spirit which gave her sagas and practical advice.
She explored her way to a lush, haunted island and lived alongside a troop of baboom which had a combative contest with her for food. She used all knowledge for living by her tribe but still starving.
In Zimbabwe, white people shoot at her, but she fled away and beat the fierce dog to death on the edge of a cliff and saved by a scientist.
In her father’s country, she need to learn in a modern society (clothing, behavior, literacy) and urged to let go of the evil spirits inside.
If she took part in “survive in the wild”, she certainly could be a youngest champion for unchallengeable courage and supreme skills to survive with dozens of mistakes and failures.
To be a great person needn’t great beginning, but one will overcome all challenges and fear.
