A boy leaves his village in eastern Northern Rhodesia under dramatic circumstances. He first gets to learn skills of survival in the modern world in Lusaka, the capital city of modern day Zambia. Then he ends up in apartheid South Africa as a prospective mineworker in Johannesburg. From here his life changes forever in a totally unexpected way, taking a whole new direction. He eventually goes on to turn South African big business upside-down in his mission to have the workers' work and living conditions improved. Raised to go out in the world to find a new home for his people, he is guided...
A boy leaves his village in eastern Northern Rhodesia under dramatic circumstances. He first gets to learn skills of survival in the modern world in L...
Returning to South Africa after thirty-eight and half years of exile turned out to be a shocking anti-climax for me. With this book I share blog articles I wrote as I introspected on this unexpected reality. In the process, I discovered a liberating truth about the land of my birth and myself: home is a state of mind, and the heart. I came to understand that if societal and individual growth and change do not keep pace with each other over time, the dynamic of a sense of home gets broken for the individual. The point being that the place called home is often a given space, with rules to...
Returning to South Africa after thirty-eight and half years of exile turned out to be a shocking anti-climax for me. With this book I share blog artic...