Lamittan Minsah

The Long-lasting Tree (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

A bloody resistance against colonial invasion that tears Seme's indigenous leadership apart marks the entry of a strange culture into the clan. In an attempt to protect the clan's religious system from erosion by the Blue-eyed (British colonists), Osayo the priest faces off with people he considers loose cannons, including his own clairvoyant son, Okayo, who escapes to a mission center away from home and falls in love with a convert. The boy is obsessed with the new faith and an undying thirst for formal education. In the meantime, a terrible plague breaks out in the countryside killing animals and people and leaving the land barren. Coupled by misunderstanding of concepts in the new faith propagated by the Blue-eyed, a long-standing rift and blame game emerge between the conservatives and the converts, and spins into a cultural marriage. Soon afterwards, Osayo dies a convert and his son Okayo realizes he has a greater role to play. Just before the priest's burial, the supernormal powers of the clan's aboriginal religious tree are stolen by a witch in line with a prophetic myth. And in a painful and tragic mission to ultimately unite the conflicting parties and limit the Blue-eyed's influence, Okayo - with the help of his brothers, puts his front foot forward in combating witchcraft.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Laminsa Indies
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781393088110
• Artikelnr.: 59314110

Autorenporträt

Lamittan Minsah is a novelist, playwright and poet from Kisumu County, Kenya. He holds a bachelor's degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST) and is the CEO of Laminsa Indies, a writers' society and online reading platform intended at growing young writers across the globe. Some of his published titles include "The Long-lasting Tree" (novel), "Let's Talk Bride" (poetry collection) and "The Wicked Gold Ring" (a ghost story available at Goodnovel). Minsah's love for oral literature, history and culture is the motive behind his writing from childhood.