Actor and writer Danai Gurira sometimes refers to herself as a "Zimerican": She was born in Iowa, but spent most of her childhood in Harare, Zimbabwe " where her new play, The Convert, is set. "I grew up there from age 5 to 19," Gurira says. "I'm back there every year, but I feel like there are things that I had to dig out through this process of creating this play." Gurira says The Convert started out as a kind of m…
SOURCE: WNYC at 04:00AM on February 10, 2012