ASIN: B015XBEM8Q
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 497
In the spirit of Live and Become, A Town Like Alice, and Anne Franks’ Diary, Memuna Barnes relives the terrifying upheaval and daily trauma of her capture by rebel forces and the long journey till her safe return home. This is the woman’s war story. The devastation of family and two nations, while two prayers gave her the will to survive and the hope for freedom.She tells of her everyday life as a child, even when displaced to a neighbouring country to live with relatives not seen for years, her culture and the pleasure, trust, joy and challenges of growing within a large African family. But the slow development of this new normality is also ripped apart by the tumultuous upheaval of the same terrorist war that sent her from her homeland.‘A few days later the rebels arrived. It was so scary, they were people like us yet looking at them - I thought these rebels must be what the devil ...
