NO SAFER KINDER HATRED, how radical hatred and ethnic violence shaped Zimbabwe

376pp., paperback, riverun, London, 2025

ISBN: 9781529427318

A memoir by Zimbabwean Frank Thabani Sayi, in which he describes the realities of his war-torn childhood, surviving both the war of liberation from White minority rule (1975-1979) and the post-independence Gukurahundi massacres orchestrated by Robert Mugabe's militias in Matabeleland (1981-1987).

Frank Thabani Sayi was born in colonial Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, in the late 1960s. He later received a scholarship to study in England and has worked as a nurse, a police officer and, most recently, as a lecturer in the Law and Business Faculty at the Open University. He holds a PhD in English and Humanities and an MA in Cultural and Critical Studies from Birkbeck, University of London.