Married to Africa: A Love Story

G. Pascal Zachary fell in love with Africa and I in turn, fell in love with how this book described the adventures he and his wife Chizo shared. Everything in this book is a vivid portrayal from the streets they walked, food eaten, clothes worn, beaches, and fearful adventures. The author is gifted in bringing us right into the center of the action as if we were there with them. As a resident of Berkeley, CA. where Zachary lives, I can only hope to meet him some day so I can hear more about their experiences. Hopefully, I'll meet them at Ashkenaz where we are all dancing to African music. His depiction of them is so vivid I would easily recognize them.. I highly recommend this book. Marcia Emery, Ph.D. author of PowerHunch!, The Intuitive Healer and Dr. Marcia Emery's Intuition Workbook

Our chatter about love and match-making is full of cliches that attempt to capture the challenge of people from two different worlds coming together. This is a story about such a match, told by someone who is both fully in the midst of it and a keen observer of it at the same time. It's appropriate to me that Zachary called it "Married to Africa," instead of "Married to Chizo"--because even though it's an intensely personal story, there's rich context about Africa and Chizo's African-ness, which give the book more color and substance than a "mere" love story. It's a vicarious journey into a terrifying, beautiful,compelling place, a place in space and time and a place in the heart, told with intensity, honesty and a sense of wonder. For those who may follow Zachary's other, more scholarly writing about Africa, and his excellent blog, [...], this is an interesting complement, and reveals some of what drives him to approach Africa with both his eyes and his heart fully open.