Chasing Freedom by Simukai Chigudu review – a powerful memoir of postcolonial unease

Teona Gherasim

A historian and exponent of ‘Rhodes must fall’ explores how political liberation doesn’t always bring personal freedom A historian and exponent of ‘Rhodes must fall’ explores how political liberation doesn’t always bring personal freedom T o be part of Zimbabwe’s “Born Free” generation was to be handed a promise: that your life would no longer be shaped by colonial rule. Skin colour would not dictate the right to vote, learn or work. For Simukai Chigudu, born in 1986, six years after