How Adolphine's story came to me - Estelle Neethling -- Adolphine's voice - Adolphine Misekabu -- Flight from Lubumbashi -- Happy childhood says in Lubumbashi -- Mulumba Joseph ka Nkudimba, 'man of peace' -- Nkudimba's fallen hero and living nemesis -- Life in Zambia and political turmoil -- An arranged marriage become a love match -- A wave of unrest in Zaire -- Journeying through the wasteland -- Change of fortune in Malawi --Fall of a tyrant -- A star crossed family united -- Mobuto Sese Seko tumbles -- rebuilding a life in the mother city -- Three babies born of the kabangos -- Fear in a time of xenophobia -- Refugee life in Cape Town post 2008 -- A deep-rooted legacy -- A stout, but heavy heart -- Sepano's visit to the DRC -- Tragic news -- yet new-found peace.
Summary:
"This is the true story of Adolphine, a refugee from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) who was twenty-two when she had to flee her home in the war-ravaged DRC in 1996. She walked thousands of kilometres across Southern Africa to be reunited with her husband Sepano in Cape Town after two years of a desperate search. Her incredible journey to escape the ruinous rule of Mobutu Sese Seko was filled with many moments of terror and despair, every country having its own share of xenophobia. She told the writer - the retired national tracing coordinator of the International Red Cross's Restoring of Family Links programme in South Africa - "I felt as if the earth had teeth, I felt its bite when I was fleeing through Africa...".Her story is a powerful intimate account of belonging and the anguish of displacement, of settling and being uprooted and how a deeply troubled household navigates this across time and space. Her story strongly highlights the vulnerability of women and children in times of war and unrest."-- Back cover.
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