ASIN: B00BI55SIU
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 15
Mpene is a part of history’s greatest crime of all. She is one of the twenty million African men, women and children who are stolen from their homes and sent across the Atlantic to the New World.Slaves.Commodities.Just another natural resource of Africa to be looted and plundered and traded and turned into profit. She knows that she must reach deep inside herself to find the iron will to survive the horrors of the journey: the long march to the coast, the dungeon in the fort, the bottomless hell of the ship, the slow death of the sugar plantation….To find the strength she needs she reaches out to her ancestors – all the ones who have gone before her, and all the ones who are still to come.And one of those ancestors still to come is my Goddaughter, Carmen.Wilful, stroppy, stubborn Carmen. Carmen who still carries the same burning refusal to bend that Mpene uses to survive her ordeal.This ...
