Description
Set in colonial Rhodesia, A Son of the Soil traces the awakening of a young boy, Alexio Shonga, against the gathering shadows of racism and dispossession. Born on the day an elder dies, Alexio inherits a legacy of resistance shaped by ancestral memory and village storytelling. From rural childhood to the segregated streets of Salisbury, he confronts brutality, loss and the hardening realities of white minority rule. As political consciousness stirs, innocence gives way to resolve. Lyrical yet unsparing, Wilson Katiyo’s classic novel captures the intimate cost of colonialism and the making of a freedom fighter.






