Mende Nazers happy childhood was cruelly cut short at the age of twelve when the Mujahidin rode into her village in the remote Nuba mountains of Sudan. They hacked down terrified villagers raped the women & abducted the children. Mende was them. She was taken & sold to an Arab woman in Khartoum. She was stripped of her name & her freedom. For seven long years she was kept as a domestic slave an abid without any pay or a single day off. Her food was the leftover scraps & her bed was the floor of the locked-up garden shed. She endured this harsh & lonely existence without knowing whether her family was alive or dead for seven long years. Passed on by her master like a parcel to a relative in London Mende eventually managed to escape to freedom. Slave is a shocking first-person insight into the modern day slave trade. It is also a fascinating memoir of an African childhood & a moving testimony to a young girls indomitable spirit in the face of adversity.