Tehaka incarnates as George Braithwaite, a Bombay merchant, who is trying to amass his fortune. He attends a presentation given by Livingstone and realises that his future lies in following the great explorer. As part of a business deal Braithwaite is forced to take Adam, an eight-year-old boy, with him to Zanzibar. Braithwaite attempts to meet Livingstone but fails, and when the Sultan grants him trading rights in his new town, Dar es Salaam, the local Arab and Indian merchants consider him a threat and try to oust him. ...MORE

Beginning in 1963, this fascinating story follows the fortunes of Donovan ‘Mac’ Mackay as he emerges from the end of schooling. He is initiated into manhood when he becomes a mercenary recruited by a logging company to protect their interests in the Congo. They wish to extract hardwood timber from the forests before everything descends into a chaos. ...MORE

Don Mattera sets his boyhood experiences against the background of Sophiatown, and offers a compelling account of how a multicultural and cosmopolitan society was transformed and destroyed by apartheid. Sophiatown was at the heart of black South African culture in the 1950s. A “Greenwich Village” of music, politics, and crime, it was run by warring gangs, but it also developed a thriving cultural life, attracting writers and musicians of international fame. ...MORE

“People who love poetry which cries out from the depth of the heart and soul, complaining of man’s inhumanity to man; of the pain of the orphan … of the phantom dreams of chained people, of Africa and its sons and daughters … will find a spirtuality rich mixture in this book of poetry..

The greatness of these poems lies in the power of the poet’s tongue. He speaks with the mystic’s spellbinding language which never fails to move the strings of the heart.” The Horizon ...MORE

Everyone’s heard of Nelson Mandela, but how many people know the real story of who saved South Africa from itself in the final turbulent decades of the last century.South Africa’s democratic dawn was a glorious achievement unparalleled in the history of the world. Never before had the ruling elite willingly given up power… and never before had a single bold individual achieved it ...MORE

Andrew K. Miller's Hintsa's Ghost is an audacious offering, treading very precarious waters that very few South Africans, let alone a white South African, of British ancestry, would dare to tread. This slim offering, over sixty pages, weaves Miller's narrative exposition of who he is, who we, collectively are, how we engage ourselves, each other and the world around us. ...MORE

Despite the hard-won independence, the climate in the African country of Kuzania is still one of corruption, greed and sexual scandal. When Shaka, born in the slums, falls in love with a top politician’s daughter, he finds himself under threat. Guided by wise old Agu, the village elder, Shaka follows the footsteps of his courageous father to save the country from the brink of collapse, and learns that reputation, honesty and popularity are not reliable credentials in the struggle for power in Kuzania ...MORE

Dancing Sermons is an Ah! Book. Vernon Sproxton described Ah! Books as those that basically induce a fundamental change in the reader’s perception of things. Dancing Sermons does this. It will make you look upon familiar things as though seeing, feeling and understanding it for the first time. ...MORE