Ideally, no human being should have to “search” for racial equality because equality should be every human being’s birthright. But in the real world, we know longstanding systems continue to perpetuate racial inequality.

Part memoir, part call to action, in Searching for Racial Equality Francisca Mandeya takes readers on a journey from her birth in Zimbabwe (then racist, colonial Rhodesia), to Nunavut, some 10,000 miles away in the Canadian Arctic, a place she has called home for nearly a decade.