Southern Cross

Southern Cross

This historical fiction hones in on the people of Southern Africa, especially those of Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Malawi of the British Central African Federation, from the beginning of time through the not-too-distant future. Immigrants of bushmen/pygmies, Arabs, Portuguese, and East Indians settle there, but in the end it is the Bantu-speakers especially the Siame family of Livingstone who come to the fore as they regain their independence from the British colonialists, and especially the adventures of Priscilla Siame after she returns from New York, her friend Yande, and her mother Agnes as they play out among the Lozi at their annual Kufuluhela rite and giant locusts under a constellation that can be seen only from the Southern Hemisphere.