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From Congolese-Australian pastor and community leader, Constantin (Costa) Mukendi, comes a heart-warming and heart-wrenching memoir of resilience, faith, survival, family and love a journey from orphan to refugee to Australian citizen and giver of hope to his people. Raised in Kasai tribe in Bakwa Ndoba village, Constantin is tragically orphaned as a six-year-old. He could become a street kid but is instead passed from relative to relative. One day something shocks Costa out of his feelings of worthlessness and into realising he might be intelligent and loved after all! A lecture from his disciplinarian brother now hits Your school is your mother and father. You must get an education. This becomes Costas mantra as he works toward his dreams, facing his inner torments, within a country troubled with poverty, oppression and violence. An experience with Christs love and healing reassures him God is with him. In I Could Have Been a Street Kid, Costa reveals with refreshing transparency his life from DR Congo to 11 years in a desolate and corrupt Zambian Refugee Camp to finally re-settlement in the Land Down Under. Will he rest on his laurels in Australia or will he finally be able to

Author

Mukendi, Constantin B.

Publisher

Inhouse Publishing

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780994515803