Eritrean musician Senait Mehari had terrible beginnings. In her newly published autobiography, she tells how her mother abandoned her in a closed suitcase when she was a baby and she was rescued – just in time – by a neighbour.
Later she was forced to become a child soldier for the Eritrean rebels before escaping to Sudan and then Germany where she lived unhappily with her father. As a teenager she found music and this has sustained her to adulthood.
Senait joins Jenni to share some of her experiences and explain how she survived them.
Heart of Fire, by Senait Mehari is published by Profile Books; ISBN 1 86197 994 0
