Uzamushaka is God.s Strength. An African Adventure 12+

📖 Uzamushaka is God’s Strength, the debut full-length novel of Jamaican-born author, Claudeth V. Williams, is historical fiction, set in the small, Central African country of Rwanda during and after the civil uprisings of 1994, which resulted in the deaths of half-a-million of that country’s citizens.After her family witnesses the brutal murder of her father at the hands of political extremists, 15-year-old Uzamushaka is forced to flee for her life, along with thousands of her countrymen, in a days-long exodus across unforgiving terrain to the protection of French soldiers posted in camps in neighbouring Zaire. Her mother and baby brother soon succumb to the rigors of the perilous journey, and she is left on her own to face the squalor, filth, and confusion of the overcrowded refugee camp, where disease and death run rampant. Struggling to survive, she must also care for her eight-year-old brother, as well as the two-year-old baby boy whom she finds alone and crying beside the body of a dead woman. She lovingly adopts him as her own, hoping to one day find his family. With this simple act of kindness, though, Uzamushaka unwittingly becomes a pawn embroiled in a dangerous game of political intrigue between the country’s two warring factions. Should the wrong persons discover the little boy’s true identity, it could not only cost him his life, but also have serious implications for the future of her homeland and its inhabitants. As a result, the determined heroine is inexorably d...