![]() ![]() ![]() ConversionÄuring her university studies Robert travelled to Egypt as an amateur musician and singer playing traditional Zimbabwean compositions at a music festival. After graduating high school in Zimbabwe, Robert returned to England for university and earned a first-class degree from the University of London. Her father, Robert McLaren, was a senior lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe and her mother, Thembi McLaren, was an entrepreneur. As well as being immersed in Zimbabwean culture, Robert's parents instilled in the children their South African roots and a strong political consciousness. Robert had a typical middle-class childhood with her younger brother and sister in the suburbs of the capital city Harare. Robert's family moved from England to Ethiopia when she was two years old and then four years later relocated to Zimbabwe where Robert received her formal primary education. ![]()
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