When I ran away from home at age 15 (this was in Harare, Zimbabwe), I quickly got hungry (a problem that I did not anticipate) and stole some carrots from the garden at the boys school I attended (pulled them right out of the ground).

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...

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  1. Don’t worry, Charles. No matter how many heartbreaking tales of your hardscrabble upbringing you post, we’ll still all hate your fucking guts.

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