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The True Story About a Woman
from Africa Seeking Asylum
in Britain
Cry With Me:
Part 1:
The True
Story About
a Woman from
Africa
Seeking
Asylum in
Britain
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UK
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£9.07
US
price:
$16.95
Format: Paperback
Size : 6 x 9
Pages: 190
ISBN: 0-595-41167-3
Published: Sep-2006
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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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Cry
With Me: Part 1 -
Mabel Ann Pike
