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      Published in Great Britain in 1998 by

      Payback Press, an imprint of Canongate Books Ltd,

      14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE

      This digital edition first published in 2019

      First published in South Africa in 1964 by

      Blue Crane Books.

      Thank you to Kahn & Averill for ‘keeping the book alive’

      This digital edition first published in 2019 by Canongate Books

      Copyright © Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa, 1964

       British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available on request from the British Library

      ISBN 978 0 86241 758 1

      eISBN 978 1 78689 808 1

      Typeset by Palimpsest Book Production Limited

      Grangemouth, Stirlingshire

       canongate.co.uk

      I DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO

      ALBERT S WATKINSON

      known to us as ‘Beka-pansi

      (the observant one who looks on the ground)

      and his wife

      ELLEN WATKINSON

      known to us as ‘Londiningi

      (the one who shelters and protects many people)

      for their help, faith and encouragement

      in making this book possible.

      CONTENTS

       CHARACTER CAST

       PROLOGUE

       INTRODUCTION

       BOOK ONE

       THE BUD SLOWLY OPENS

       THIS I CHOOSE

       THE SACRED STORY OF THE TREE OF LIFE

       The Self-Created

       Behold the First is Born!

       The Race That Died

       Thy Doom, Oh Amarire!

       The Last Sin of Za-Ha-Rrellel

       Postscript

       THE COMING OF THE SECOND PEOPLE

       Behold the Survivors!

       Between Gorogo and Odu

       The Bud Slowly Opens

       THE SPAWN OF THE DRAGON

       BOOK TWO

       STAND FOREVER, OH ZIMA-MBJE

       THE COMING OF THE STRANGE ONES

       THE STORY OF LUMUKANDA

       The Whispering Night

       What Secrets Hath Heaven?

       Behold the Deceiver

       When Grass Meets Fire

       Lumukanda Turns Traitor!

       Under the Floods of Time

       THE BLOT OF ZIMA-MBJE

       THE EYE IS BLIND THAT WILL NOT SEE

       BOOK THREE

       THE JOURNEY TO ASAZI

       IN MY WEB – A DEAD FLY

       ‘I, THE IMMORTAL’

       SO DIE THE INNOCENT

       BEHOLD THE CRUEL

       LO! THE VIPER STRIKES

       TRUST NOT A JACKAL’S WORD

       FROM THE CLAWS OF DEATH

       HURL BACK THE WAR SPEAR

       LET PEACE REIGN SUPREME

       HIS ADOPTED SONS

       BEHOLD THE COMET

       THEY WHO MUST DIE

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