I Could Be Someone

Memoirs of an Orphan from Zimbabwe

By: Edmond Sanganyado

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

A Remarkable Yet Chilling Memoir of an Orphan from Africa

From an orphan, environmental scientist and Fulbright Fellow comes a remarkable memoir of growing up in an unremarkable poor town in Zimbabwe that presents an alarming revelation of the oft ignored challenges of child-headed families in Africa. I Could Be Someone is an outstanding memoir on grace and grit, and the guts to forge an identity beyond the pain of being an orphan. At only nine, Edmond Sanganyado lost his father. By the time he turned 17, he had lost his mother and was taking care of his young brothers. I Could Be Someone is not a memoir about wars, child soldiers and child marriages, it is a window into the daily struggles of 52 million orphans in Africa and 177,000 child-headed households in South Africa and Zimbabwe alone. Rejected by family, mocked by neighbors, and often kicked out of school for unpaid tuition, Edmond Sanganyado escaped the pain by hiding in books. I Could Be Someone is an honest and brutal memoir revealing the life of an orphan in Africa - alone, depressed, fragile, prone to crime, and everyone thinks they know what is best for him. I Could Be Someone is a riveting memoir about an orphaned boy who resolved to prove to the world that through education an orphan can become someone. And it is an engaging yet unsettling call for reformation in the education sector and a paradigm shift on solutions to child-headed households. The memoir from Edmond Sanganyado, I Could Be Someone is a new addition to the great storytelling tradition of J.D. Vance, Jeanette Walls, Immaculée Ilibagiza, Wole Soyinka and Leo Tolstoy.