Gamu Nhengu: The Sensation, The Difficult Story

Before she became a sensation on the UK talent show X Factor, Gamu Nhengu was an unknown 18-year old daughter of a single mother from Zimbabwe. Gamu and her mother had been living on a student visa in Scotland but the visa has expired and they have been denied extension. Now the Home Office says they must return to Zimbabwe. This order has ended her run on the talent show which is the equivalent of American Idol. This might not have happened if she had come from a wealthier and prosperous country. Just an aspect of the indignities Africans suffer from a supposedly globalized and globalizing world. What may become of Gamu's vision is up in the air for now. See more of Gamu's story here and here.