This is a historical novel about the uprising of the Mashona and
Matabele in then-Rhodesia in 1896 and 1897. Their land was taken from
them forcefully by Rhodes and his gang, but the organized rebellion was a
lesson to the whites that these people were not going to be treated
like dogs and do nothing about it.
The
uprising did not succeed in driving whites out of the country, but it
was successful in shaking the thinking of many whites into the
realization that another rebellion in the future may not end well for
them. It probably set the pace for future liberation struggles and the
eventual birth of a Zimbabwe governed by “natives.”
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