السعي وراء الحرية | بلوغ سن الرشد في نهاية الإمبراطورية

_The Pursuit of Freedom | In my homeland, they call me “Freedom Born.”_ Simukai Chigodu was one of the first generations born after the end of colonial rule in Zimbabwe. He grew up hearing stories about how his grandfather was killed by the Rhodesian regime, how his father was imprisoned and tortured as a student before joining the bloody war of independence as a fighter, and how his mother abandoned the shackles of the past to build a successful career helping other women do the same. However, Simukai's early life was influenced by British traditions. With his schoolmates, he sang English folk songs, read Shakespeare, and played cricket. Then, in 2002, he was one of thousands who left the country as it descended into political violence and economic collapse. It was his new home: a boarding school in the north of England. What followed was a culture shock that changed his understanding of the world, his family, and himself. _"The Pursuit of Freedom"_ is his profound and deeply moving story, the story of a boy whose personality was shaped by the buried psychological traumas that his parents suffered, as a result of the momentous historical events of the late twentieth century. It is the story of a family haunted by the cause of liberation, and a new generation still searching for its promised freedom.