By Iminza Keboge
Published January 10, 2025
Twelve years after politically-instigated ethnic violence destroys his family and ‘ends’ his life at the age of 12, I (the entire book is written in the rare but effective first person singular perspective) graduates at the top of his class at New York City’s Ivy League Columbia University. That is the deceptively simple synopsis of From Terror to Hope novel by Ogova Ondego.
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“I have written this book lest we forget what humanity has been through. After the Rwandan Genocide we were told that it would never happen again. But that hasn’t stopped people from visiting violence on one another in places such as Kenya, Burundi, eastern Congo-Kinshasa, Ivory Coast and even Tanzania,” Ondego says, revealing that the book had been crafted from his experience as a journalist who witnessed the suffering of Kenyans in 1991, 1997 and 2007.
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From Terror to Hope may have been inspired by the perennial suffering of people in socially and politically unstable African countries like Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, eastern Congo-Kinshasa and Ivory Coast, but the book also tackles contemporary issues–xenophobia, racism, negative ethnicity, gender discrimination and religious hypocrisy–around the world; from sub-Saharan Africa to Latin America, and from Asia to Europe and North America.
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From Terror to Hope is available for purchase from online bookshops such as:
1). Apple
2). Barnes & Noble
3). Everand
4). Fable
5). Hoopla
6). Kobo
7). Smashwords
8). Tolino
9). Vivlio
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