Colonial Adventure and Other Stories

Colonial Adventure is an epic in free-form verse depicting a slice of British colonial history (1936 - 1977) as experienced by individuals on both sides of the racial conflict. It starts with a British couple who establish a large agricultural operation in what was then Southern Rhodesia later Rhodesia and now Zimbawe. With the rise of black nationalism the black majority rebels leading to a brutal civil war that damages every segment of the population. Of the other shorter stories all in free-form verse one concerns a female architect from Haiti another a retired actor and a third a young boy abandoned by his mother. A fourth poem addresses an over-reaction in the climate of fear about Islam and a fifth an outrage against a teenager seeking to free herself from family domination. Simba Kubwa is a dramatic monologue conducted by an African dictator.