Escape from Lubumbashi

ISBN-13: 9781032567488 / Twarda / 2023 / 117 str.

Estelle Neethling

Opis

This book 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. It highlights the vulnerability of women and children in times of war and unrest.

Spis treści

Preface - Annie Barbara Chikwanha
Acknowledgements
Introduction - Rhoda Kadalie
How Adolphine’s story came to me - Estelle Neethling
Adolphine's voice - Adolphine Misekabu
PART 1
1 Flight from Lubumbashi
2 Happy childhood days in Lubumbashi
3 Mulumba Joseph wa Nkudimba, “man of peace”
4 Nkudimba’s fallen hero and his living nemesis
5 Life in Zambia and political turmoil
6 An arranged marriage becomes a love match
7 A wave of unrest in Zaire
8 Journeying through the wasteland
9 Change of fortune in Malawi
PART 2
10 Fall of a tyrant
11 A star-crossed family reunited
12 Mobutu Sese Seko tumbles – rebuilding a life in the mother city
13 Three babies born to the Kabangos
14 Fear in a time of xenophobia
15 Refugee life in Cape Town post 2008
16 An deep-rooted legacy
17 A stout, but heavy heart
18 Sepano’s visit to the DRC
19 Tragic news – yet new found peace

O autorze

Estelle Neethling met Adolphine while working for the South African Red Cross Society as national tracing coordinator (Restoring of Family Links Programme, International Committee of the Red Cross). This book done over nine years was life-changing mainly in that Neethling became familiar with the enormous challenges faced by displaced people. Neethling felt the strong need to tell Adolphine's story after having known her for many years.