Chasing freedom : coming of age at the end of empire

Chigudu, Simukai, 1986-2026

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As a member of the first generation born after the end of colonial rule in Zimbabwe, Simukai Chigudu had heard stories about his grandfather's murder by the Rhodesian regime, and of how his father was imprisoned and tortured as a student activist before joining the bloody war of independence as a guerrilla soldier. Yet, despite his country's hard-won freedom, Chigudu's early life was steeped in British tradition. When Zimbabwe convulsed from political turmoil and economic collapse, Chigudu left home to attend a Catholic boarding school in Lancashire. What followed was a culture shock that unravelled his understanding of the world. In 'Chasing Freedom' , Chigudu elegantly weaves together his own story with Zimbabwe's history, from a young Cecil Rhodes on the diamond trail to the making of Rhodesia through plunder and dispossession, and from the undoing of Robert Mugabe to the Rhodes Must Fall movement in Oxford, of which he was a founding member.