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prosperous, federated Africa in the
distant future, but as is the case
with all success, the fight to maintain
the attained success is in full swing.
Mukalu, an officer on the continent's
first ever secret service, is on a
mission to help maintain this success.
He has orders to execute an informer,
a man who has been leaking highly
sensitive information to the continent's
potential enemies. When we take a
trip through time to the distant past,
to seventeenth century south-central
Africa, we find Mukalu's ancestor,
also called Mukalu. Married, and a
father of two adolescents, he leads
an eventful life. Though patterned,
his life is far from routine. This
pattern changes when war threatens.
As a war veteran, Mukalu is required
to join the army to train and lead
a group of inexperienced young men.
When threat comes to reality, a series
of wars ensue, some instigated by
the empire, others in self defense.
The final battle is fought on the
southern frontier of the empire. The
group start out knowing the odds and
are confident of victory, but disaster
strikes when a series of tactical
errors lead to the defeat of a mighty
army. This doesn't herald the end
of the empire. There are options to
the impasse, solutions that are well
within reach. The odds, however, conspire
against the empire. It is slowly broken
apart. Mukalu is sold into slavery,
but his seed, all named after their
predecessor, and carrying his spirit,
continue the fight for freedom into
the era of colonialism, the era when
the winds of change swept through
the world, to the present time of
the great African identity crisis,
till the time when the continent is
completely free - which is the beginning
of this story.
Published: April 1999.
Rating: The intro (given as
the excerpt below) has an average
score just above a Hemingway Short
Story. The entire book, however, scores
above a Dickens Novel's sentence complexity,
but makes up for this by having a
higher "Flesch Reading Ease Score"
than a Dickens Novel. The complexity
of the vocabulary is pleasantly the
same as a Dickens novel. *source:
Editor International Databank.
Excerpts
from each of the four short stories
that make up the entire book are also
available here.
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