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The monster dying in America does not die quietly; as it melts into a steaming pile, it bawls, yells, screams.

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...