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Escape from Lubumbashi A Refugee’s Journey on Foot to Reunite Her Family 1st Edition

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Full Title

Escape from Lubumbashi A Refugee’s Journey on Foot to Reunite Her Family 1st Edition

Author(s)

Estelle Neethling

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9781000982909, 9781032567488, 9781003436966, 9781032567495, 9781000982886

Publisher

Routledge

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

This is the true story of Adolphine, a refugee from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) who was twenty-two when she had to flee her home in the war-ravaged DRC in 1996. She walked thousands of kilometres across Southern Africa to be reunited with her husband Sepano in Cape Town after two years of a desperate search. Her incredible journey to escape the ruinous rule of Mobutu Sese Seko was filled with many moments of terror and despair, every country having its own share of xenophobia. She told the writer – the retired national tracing coordinator of the International Red Cross’s Restoring of Family Links programme in South Africa – “I felt as if the earth had teeth, I felt its bite when I was fleeing through Africa…”. Her story is a powerful intimate account of belonging and the anguish of displacement, of settling and being uprooted and how a deeply troubled household navigates this across time and space. Her story strongly highlights the vulnerability of women and children in times of war and unrest. Print editions not for sale in Sub Saharan Africa.