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We were raised under the same roof. We are only two years apart. Yet, we are, politically speaking, a world apart.

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...