Frank Sayi

No Safer Kinder Hatred (eBook, ePUB)

A Childhood in Zimbabwe in Times of War

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Frank Sayi grew up in the 1970s in Mawabeni, a native reserve in colonial Rhodesia, a country under white minority rule, governed by Ian Smith's illegal regime. Reserves were places of repression and containment. There seemed to Frank to be no difference between government soldiers, police officers, and guerillas fighting for freedom. They were all violent men who terrorised the civilian population. Schools were closed, food supply chains and clothing were contaminated with poison, refugees fled the armies.

There were five others in Frank's immediate family: his grandmother, a stern, wise, mercurial matriarch, capable of intimidating severity, her son Uncle Sami, and two sisters, Thoko and Gift. He didn't see much of their mother and in his mind she was another sister. Their lives were hard.

By June 1979 the country had a new name: Zimbabwe, and there was a brief hiatus in fighting. It was Independent at last. A new anthem was chosen, Nkosi Sikelela iAfrica - God Bless Africa - but by 1982 a civil war had erupted. The leader, Robert Mugabe declared total war on Matabeleland and the Ndebele people who hadn't supported him and unleashed his chosen militia, the Gukurahundi, who brought famine, disease, murder, rape and terror.

Frank Sayi was shaped by these events. His memoir tells of a childhood conditioned in the shadow of the mayhem brought about by the structure and dehumanising effects of colonialism and its dreadful legacy, and the impact of civil war. Yet it is also full of moving, hilarious and beautiful stories of innocence and the increasingly hard-won experience of a war-torn childhood, and the development of a man who was determined to leave this violence behind.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Quercus
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781529427325
• Artikelnr.: 72607925

Autorenporträt

Frank Thabani SAYI was born in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, in the late 1960s, on the cusp of the war of independence or The Bush War, to overturn a century of racial subjugation. After Zimbabwe's independence from White Rule, he bore witness to and survived the Gukurahundi Massacres orchestrated by Robert Mugabe's militias in Matabeleland in the early 1980s. He came to England on a scholarship, and he has previously worked as nurse in cardio-thoracic medicine, intensive care, and gender-reassignment surgery. And for twenty-five years as a Police Officer in Child Sexual Exploitation, Black-on-Black Violence, and Modern Slavery and Child Criminal Exploitation. And most recently, as a lecturer at the Open University in the Law and Business Faculty. He holds a Doctorate in English and Humanities and a Masters in Cultural and Critical Studies, both from Birkbeck, University of London. Frank is also an associate editor on the Brief Encounters Journal as SOAS. His first short story, Shadows, was published in the Mechanics Institute Review in 2015. In his spare time, he enjoys long walks and exploring the beautiful Buckinghamshire countryside.