The Power of Three

In this emotionally unflinching narrative, Tirene Blake lays bare a generational story of violence, faith, and the search for reconciliation in post-colonial Africa. The excerpts carry readers through scenes of unimaginable personal loss-her sister's brutal murder, her mother's war-torn childhood, and the inherited trauma that shaped their lives.

With haunting clarity, Blake captures the psychological imprint of witnessing horror, the agony of memory, and the silence that follows injustice. Her writing shifts between searing poetic expression and stark prose, questioning faith, history, and the human capacity for cruelty and resilience.

These pages are not only testimony-they are a plea. A plea for justice, for understanding, and for the healing power of storytelling. Blake does not write to sensationalize, but to remember-and to ensure that truth is not buried beneath the rubble of silence and forgotten amnesty.

'He lets out a maniacal scream and I lose contact with her, to see the head of his axe coming with determined force towards her.'

The Power of Three is a touching truestory. Both historic and contemporary, it is about the men, women and children who sacrificed their lives for their love of God and their commitment to their fellow man.

Author Tirene Blake takes you to the room where terrorists axed her sister and fifteen others to death, and where the victims were each dismembered to a deafening silence and unforgotten amnesty.

In a different room, the author is thrown into solitary confinement for trying to escape a mental institution. From a filthy mattress on a cold floor, the writer recalls her love for her sister, her mother and her father -and with an overwhelming feeling of remorse and betrayal, she tells her story to try and bring back true values of justice and accountability.

'She stood on the hospital veranda as the gardener walked past, dragging a black plastic bag behind him. She was convinced he had cut up her daughter and that her body parts were in the bag. She was also convinced that he was the same man who years earlier had axed her sister to death.'

This true story will remind you that it is possible to overcome obstacles. It conveys a sadness for all children and a plea to adults to create a world where children can again play games that are fanciful and free. It touches on terrorism, and through bitter experience, the writer describes the breakdown of society while dealing with her own personal obstacles.

In almost every area of trial and endurance, we strive to overcome. With the help of a therapist and her faith in God, the author and her family overcame terrorism, divorce, murder, the death of her parents and sister, and abuse. From that darkness, she brings a message: If she could fight her demons, you can fight yours.

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