about

retired academic, writing teacher, trad. published
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Now an indie author

Why? Because  I want to give back to an indigenous community who taught me the true meaning of generosity.

It all starts way back, in 1994 in fact, when I undertook a research trip into a remote area of southern Africa to find the last band of southern African hunter-gatherers said to be living among the Ju|'hoan people in northern Namibia.

Now that was an adventure!!  Eventually,  I wrote the book; two of them in fact, and soon my lovely traditional publisher went under. But I kept the relationship with the extraordinary Ju|'hoan people I met, visiting their Kalahari desert homeland often.  And through  various fund-raising events and the sales of my revised, upgraded, self-published books (my imprint is Mongongo Books) I have managed to support education for Ju|'hoan children in their remote homeland. 

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