Neil Thompson

Pantsula Boy Neil Thompson

Africa has a deep, rhythmic heartbeat that affects everyone who stands on her soil. She is incredibly beautiful, but behind that layer of beauty lies a savagery that is expressed sometimes as passion and sometimes as brutality. She brings out the best and worst in people-no-one leaves untouched. This collection of stories captures the spirit of Africa in countries familiar to the author, unveiling for the reader numerous different cultures, traditions and ways of life. In Africa, people from very different backgrounds meet and form relationships, enter diverse levels of trust, find respect and love. The human heart and mind can seek new places and discover a desire to be challenged. But sometimes situations explode out of all control...