Tsitsi Dangarembga

A growing body of literature concerned with the atrocities of the Matabeleland Genocide in Zimbabwe often obscures the fact that there is little writing from within the country dealing with ZanuPF acts of terror on citizens outside Matabeleland. In this brave memoir former broadcast journalist Jestina Mukoko relates her 2008 kidnapping from her Harare home at the crack of dawn, and her subsequent illegal detention and torture at the hands of the Zimbabwean state.