Stories from Africa

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Fleeting friendships

I met Patou in the early 1990s, when I was a teenager. I had gone to visit my godfather, whom I almost idolised. I did not have a father, and I knew I was craving for one.

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The Imposter

In the dusty township of Kigoma, two teenage friends, Edo and Patient, dream of escape. Edo swears he would sell his soul to the Devil to get out — and soon his wish comes true.

A Look into My Life – a memoir by Christian Lone

A Look into My Life

A memoir of growing up fatherless in Lubumbashi, a mother loved and lost, poverty and war, and the long road to a new life in South Africa.

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The Legend of the Kafwankumba River

In a Tshokwe village by the Kafwankumba river, Chief Mwata's household of three wives and many children seems blessed — until jealousy and old wounds begin to tear the family apart. A tale of a proud chief, his three very different wives, and a river that remembers everything.