Out of the Black Shadows by Stephen Lungu and Anne Coomes

Stephen Lungu, the oldest son of a teenage girl, was three years old when his mother abandoned her three children. Left in the reluctant care of an unfeeling aunt, Stephen too ran away at age 11, preferring life on the streets. To survive, he slept under bridges and scavenged from white folks’ dustbins. As a teenager he was recruited into an urban gang called the Black Shadows, which burgled and mugged with a half-focused dream of revolution.

When an evangelist came to town, Stephen was sent to fire bomb the event, carrying his bag of explosives and mingling with the crowd. Instead of carrying out the attack, Stephen stayed to listen. What followed was better than fiction.

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