Slave

Mende Nazers' happy childhood was cruelly cut short at the age of twelve when the Mujahidin rode into her village in the remote Nuba Mountains of Sudan. They hacked down terrified villagers, raped women, and abducted children. Mende was among them. She was taken and sold to an Arab woman in Khartoum. She was stripped of her name and her freedom. For seven long years, she was kept as a domestic slave, an abid, without any pay or a single day off. Her food was leftover scraps, and her bed was the floor of a locked garden shed. She endured this harsh and lonely existence without knowing whether her family was alive or dead. For seven long years, she was passed on by her master like a parcel to a relative in London. Mende eventually managed to escape to freedom. Slave is a shocking first-person insight into...