Cry With Me: Part 1
The True Story About a Woman from Africa
Seeking Asylum in Britain
Mabel Ann Pike
Cry With Me: Part 1: The True Story About a Woman from Africa Seeking Asylum in Britain |
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The book is an asylum seeker's account of courage and
perseverance, of how for years she suffered the indignities,
humiliations and anguish of racial prejudice and violence in Zimbabwe
with its disintegrating economy and law and order, finally seeking
refuge in Britain, the home of her grandfather.
Book Description
Cry
With Me is a moving and heartrending, personal account by the author
about how she grew up and suffered untold hardships and injustices in a
war-torn and corrupt African country—Zimbabwe—and how she finally took
the courageous step to seek asylum in Britain. Mabel, who writes from
the heart, recreates the loving relationship she had as a child with her
Shona grandmother, a practical woman who, though married to a white
British man, lived simply, preferring to sleep on the floor by the stove
and eat her bush meals than live by western standards. The warm loving
relationship with her family, her parents and her children, shine
through the various tragedies and hardships. She is ruthlessly honest in
describing the inhuman cruelties of the guerrillas (‘freedom fighters’
or ‘war veterans’) who murdered and raped her cousin, and the Zimbabwean
police who ‘arrested’ and abused her, throwing her into a stinking
prison when she was nine months pregnant. The ultimate poignancy comes
from the anguish with which she recreates her sweet daughter Aida’s
plight, dying from a kidney infection in the unhygienic and unbelievably
filthy conditions of hospitals in Zimbabwe. Though Mabel proved herself
to be an enterprising and resourceful businesswoman, the persistent
harassment of government officials, the unrelenting havoc of crime and
plunder, eventually drove her to seek a new life in Britain, the home of
her forefathers. However, the five-year long and ongoing delay in
granting her asylum, with the prospect of her appeal being refused and
her being returned to the Zimbabwe hell-hole at the age of 53, has been
a sword of Damocles over her life, resulting in stress and ill-health.
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