Mirika Mayo Cornelius

The Day I Met Freedom Mirika Mayo Cornelius

Imagine meeting Freedom for the first time, and it brings you the most sorrow, pain and joy of your entire life. This is the story of Wani, Iney and Oseen, who would do anything for Freedom, but the question is would Freedom do anything for them and at what cost? Written by best selling author of the novel Curse the Cotton, author Mirika Mayo Cornelius brings the powerful interconnected lives of slaves, from beyond the grave, in a vibrant, historical, multi-ending fiction, giving characters back their stolen voices in order to reveal captivating stories of how they encountered the most wanted thing of that day - Freedom. The Day I Met Freedom is unapologetically written, as if the slaves wrote each breath of their stories for the world to one day discover.