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For centuries, across dusty archives and in the whispered memories of grandmothers, an uncomfortable truth has lingered-unwritten, suppressed, denied. It is the truth of stolen names, severed bloodlines, and forgotten kin. It is the truth of lineage erased-not by accident, but by design. This book is a reclamation. The colonial project in Africa was not only a conquest of land, labor, and resources. It was also a conquest of identity. Through policies of racial classification, forced assimilation, land dispossession, and record manipulation, colonial regimes across the continent-especially in Zimbabwe and South Africa-systematically obscured the heritage of millions. The mixed-race child, the dispossessed chief, the missionary's daughter, the mother separated from her tribe by marriage, war, or decree-all were categorized, misnamed, or omitted. Their descendants live with the residue of this violence: missing ancestry, buried names, fragmented memories. Yet Africa remembers. In village stories, parish books, family Bibles, colonial registries, graveyards, and DNA, pieces of history are being reclaimed. The Untold Truth is a sweeping, deeply researched narrative that spans archives in the United Kingdom and Southern Africa, oral traditions in communities from Matabeleland to the Eastern Cape, and the lived experiences of those navigating the silence left by the past. Drawing on genealogy, anthropology, African ancestral studies, and collaborative testimony, this book weaves together the personal and the political. It tells of people who possess complete records of their heritage, those who remember by heart, and those who search through brittle papers in church basements and national vaults hoping for one thread to stitch the past together. This is not only an African story-it is a global one. The legacy of colonial identity engineering resonates across the diaspora, in the Black experience in Europe, the Americas, and the Caribbean. Wherever African heritage was commodified or erased, the struggle to reclaim lineage continues. This book is for those who have asked, ""Where do I come from?"" and been met with silence. It is for historians, descendants, communities, and nations. But more than anything, The Untold Truth is an invitation-to remember, to resist, and to reclaim. Let the truth be told.

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