Home & Away tells the human stories of the Zimbabwean exile, forced to be away from their motherland due to consecutive years of misrule and tyranny. It tells the story of the highly educated, qualified Zimbabwean, scrounging away at the nursing homes in England; of the women waiting for their men back in Zimbabwe, of the hundreds of fatherless children trafficked in and out of South Africa to visit long lost grandparents. It tells the stories of the ones who stayed at home; of those who constantly try to return; only to be confronted by the harsh realities of a once beautiful land, ravaged by corruption, misrule, human rights abuses and a collapsing economy. It lays bare the emotional, economic, and social destruction ravaging a country once referred to as the "bread basket" of the region, through the eyes of those that stayed at home, and those that went away!

I was born in the White Waters area, nestled amongst the rolling hills of the Matopos, South of Bulawayo; Zimbabwe's second largest city, better known as the City of Kings and Queens. My writing has been deeply enriched by the stories of the scores of my fellow countrymen and women I have met on this forced sojourn in these foreign lands - driven away by the troubles haunting the motherland. These stories are told honestly and truthfully here and now, and if by any chance, I have not done this, I apologise in the full knowledge that at some airport somewhere, some bus depot somewhere, some tshisanyama somewhere; someone will warmly correct me, and give me some other version of the story! I believe we are on this journey for a reason, and a big part of that reason is to tell our stories! So, here goes!