International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: Through the history, conflicts are always the cause of pain, sorrow and death. Nowadays more are developing for different rationale; colour, religion, race, gender; leaving millions of people to suffer all around the world. Racism has been a hot topic in literature; writers are examining the treatment of various kinds of discrimination as a weapon against hatred and anger.


29 April 2012

Small Cover ImageThe Cry of the Go-Away Bird
By: Andrea Eames
Published in London, Harvill Secker, 2011

Elise, a 13 year old second generation British-Zimbabwean living in a country farm with her mother and her black nanny Beauty, moves to another farm after her mother remarried to Steve near Harare. Elise always consider herself as African, but in the 1990s, when the violence and the farm invasions begin in Zimbabwe, troubles has started for her being bullied at school, friends are forces to flee the country, fall in love and confront the escalating horror in her land.
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