Frank Thabani Sayi
R440.00
Frank Sayi grew up in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, in the 1970s. His childhood straddled two very significant periods in his country’s history, both of which heavily influenced his memoir. The first was the war of liberation (1975-1979), closely followed by the post-independence internecine war (1981-1987).
Crucially, Frank was raised in a native reserve in colonial Rhodesia, a country under white minority rule, governed by Ian Smith’s racist and illegal regime. Native reserves were places of repression, and containment-replete of hope.
Sayi’s memoir is intricately woven around the lives of the members of his immediate family, whom he uses to foreground the tragic lives of a people caught within the web of war.
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No Safer Kinder Hatred
And as a silhouette of war, Sayi’s memoir showcases human capacity for extra-ordinary violence, but also, compassion, endurance, survival and the triumph of the human spirit. It binds together the narratives from two wars and acts as lens through which the implications of political violence in Zimbabwe can be understood. He goes beyond and beneath standard historical narratives of war and examines the psychological impact of war on ordinary people.
No Safer Kinder Hatred tells of a childhood conditioned in the shadow of the mayhem brought about by the structure and dehumanising effects of colonialism and it’s dreadful legacy, and the impact of civil war.
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