"I Am Not Your Slave is the shocking true story of a young African girl, Tupa, who was abducted from southwestern Africa and funneled through an extensive yet almost completely unknown human trafficking network spanning the entire African continent"--
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"I Am Not Your Slave is the shocking true story of a young African girl, Tupa, who was abducted from southwestern Africa and funneled through an extensive yet almost completely unknown human trafficking network spanning the entire African continent"--
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The author, who is publishing under a pseudonym, is a young woman of the Himba tribe in Namibia. In 2006, drought came to their area. The Himba depend on cattle for their livelihood, and in past droughts would take their cattle to the south, where there was more grass. However, that area had recently been organized into nature "conservancies," which resulted in these grazing areas being no longer available to her family.
The result was that her father had to take his herd north across the Kunene River and into Angola, to be sold. The author had the bad luck to be included in the bargain.
The story of what happened to her after that is utterly appalling. First, because she was raped more times than she could keep track of. But it's also an appalling story of a well-organized system that seeks out young African women, to sell them into sexual slavery. The system even appears be able to do this "to order"; in her case, a man in Dubai had apparently "ordered" a young Himba woman for his "harem."
She, however, managed to retain a solid idea of her own self-worth, and with resourcefulness, tenacity, and a bit of good luck, she eventually escaped the system. After a while, she made it back to Namibia.
She told her story to an academic, Chris Lockhart, who helped her to write this book. The narrative moves smoothly, though often shockingly. What makes her story especially useful is that it includes a substantial amount of information about the context in which it happened.
I heartily recommend this book to anyone who is concerned about human trafficking (which I think everyone should be concerned about).
