Reading Time: 4 minutesYear of Publication: 2013Genre: Autobiography Introduction Where do you begin when you have spent twenty-five years in exile, returning to a newly independent country where everything you once knew has changed or been taken away? This was the question that lingered with me throughout the final chapters of Mukwahepo. Her story stirred up a flurry of emotions—gratitude, grief, pride, frustration, admiration—and yet it is the last few chapters that truly unsettled me. They have moved me to tears, and I know this book will stay with me. There is something inexplicably beautiful, almost divine, about reading the life story of someone from your own place. I was…