A Story of Resilience

Immigration, Migration and Trauma of Sub-Sahara African Women in Canada

The help stable countries often offer to refugees, usually happens with many challenges. These refugees are
usually in flight for their lives from their original countries. The challenges though broadly known, are either
misunderstood, assumed or just inadvertently ignored. In this book, Eduth Ngene Kambere brings to the fore
these challenges as an experience she lived.
In 1985, Edith Kambere’s life as she knew it in Uganda, turned for the worse and nearly two years later,
started her very treacherous escape to safety from Uganda. In this book, Edith Ngene Kambere, presents her
unique yet heart wrenching narrative of experiences she and her familty endured while fleeing for their lives.
At numerous points in the book, Edith incorporates narratives of raw and unedited agonizing experiences, and
encounters many African immigrant women faced during their own flight from war horror, political witch-hunt
and many other acts of a dehumanizing nature. Unfortunately, to this day, many immigrants especially women
from Afriva continue to face similar experiences in their flight from life threatening circumstances.
This book offers first hand insights Edith and her entire family ad to endure, which are life changing and
provide practical learning and teaching moments of usually untold nor shared wealth information. Health Care
Providers, Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Community Leaders, Educators, Immigration Officials and
Politicians wound profoundly benefit from the information and advice Edith presents in this book, during their
training and professional practice.
Professor Robert P. Bikibinga
York College of Pennsylvania
In this Book, Edith Kambere emphasizes that trauma is not just something from the past. It can be re-lived,
triggered by events or event comments that take one back into the fear and depression flowing from the original
trauma. She has written this book as a kind of therapy not just for herself, but for other women who lived this
experience. Telling one’s story, and hearing the stories of others with a similar experience, assists in finding a route
to a positive focus on the future. Teachers of refugee children need as well to understand the situation of the
mothers of the children the conflicting demans of supporting the children, but also finding their own route to
success in ther new country/ These teachers should read Kambere’s book
Larry Kuehn, Director of Research, BC Teacher’s Federation.