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Muroro: The Man from Sena
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ISBN10: 1065419120
ISBN13: 9781065419129
Publisher: Tongai Chitsamatanga
Published: Sep 27 2026
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781065419129
Publisher: Tongai Chitsamatanga
Published: Sep 27 2026
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Muroro: The Man from Sena is a story of migration, survival, love, heritage and the continuation of a family across generations.
Based on an oral history passed down through the author's family, the story begins in the eighteenth century with a young Portuguese-African trader who leaves Sena, on the Zambezi River, on a trading journey into the African interior.
Based on an oral history passed down through the author's family, the story begins in the eighteenth century with a young Portuguese-African trader who leaves Sena, on the Zambezi River, on a trading journey into the African interior.
He never completes the journey he expected.
Falling seriously ill far from home, he is carried into the country of Chief Chirwa, where strangers must decide whether to fear him, abandon him, or save his life. What follows is a story of recovery, belonging and an unexpected relationship that will shape generations yet unborn.
From Sena and the Save River to the communities of Njanja and the world of the Rozvi, Muroro follows the meeting of cultures at a time when history was preserved not in books, but in names, praise poetry, family memory and stories told around the fire.
More than two centuries later, those stories are still being told.
Muroro: The Man from Sena is not presented as the final word on the history of the family. It is an attempt to preserve the story as it reached one generation before the voices that carried it disappear.
It is a story about where we come from, what survives us, and why remembering matters.
Falling seriously ill far from home, he is carried into the country of Chief Chirwa, where strangers must decide whether to fear him, abandon him, or save his life. What follows is a story of recovery, belonging and an unexpected relationship that will shape generations yet unborn.
From Sena and the Save River to the communities of Njanja and the world of the Rozvi, Muroro follows the meeting of cultures at a time when history was preserved not in books, but in names, praise poetry, family memory and stories told around the fire.
More than two centuries later, those stories are still being told.
Muroro: The Man from Sena is not presented as the final word on the history of the family. It is an attempt to preserve the story as it reached one generation before the voices that carried it disappear.
It is a story about where we come from, what survives us, and why remembering matters.
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