At just 22 years of age, Malaika Wa Azania has done what most people can only ever dream of. Memoirs of a Born Free is not only Malaika's long-overdue letter to the ANC but is also a journey of the extraordinary life that she has lived. From the dusty streets of Meadowlands, the reader follows Malaika as she discovers and blossoms in her politics, in her Pan Africanist ideals and as a fighter and future custodian for blackness. She has been on international observer missions and worked closely with politicians, from Thabo Mbeki to Julius Malema. Malaika's story is not a reflection of the freedom spoken about in the romantic speeches of government officials. It epitomises the ongoing struggle for liberation and for emancipation from the mental slavery that still exists even in the 'born-free' generation.

This is anything but a comfortable read.