Written by award-winning author Christopher Mlalazi, Running With Mother has also been made a prescribed reading at San Francisco State University in a course titled ‘Exile and Immigration’ The University recommended the book because its contents reflect the root cause of migration and exile.
“The book is also moving very well in Zimbabwe and around the world,” Mlalazi said from Germany, where he is busy promoting the book. He has given two lectures at Strothoff International School in Frankfurt during their Book Week, and another in Hannover City, and has several readings and lectures lined up.
Published last year, Running With Mother is an account by Rudo, a teenage school girl who observes the events that take place in her village during the Gukurahundi atrocities. It is a gripping story of how the main character, her mother, aunt and little cousin survived the onslaught that left at least 20,000 people dead in the early 1980s.
The atrocities took place in the Midlands and two Matabeleland Provinces, which remain the most politically sensitive in post-independent Zimbabwe.
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