A Geckos Farewell

A Gecko?s Farewell i s a novel about three Africans from different parts of the continent who meet in the spirit of (online) and plan to found a School of Stories.

Etiaba, a village schoolteacher, loses his job and moves to the capital city and its world of prayer contractors and hope merchants. Mzilikazi?s is the story of the homeless spectre, a boy soldier, the fugitive, the exile ? a black South African dislocated under the Apartheid regime. Nadia is a radical student of photography at the American University in Cairo. She becomes a photojournalist and takes the picture of an Islamist terrorist, an act that endangers her.

These three characters eventually escape from Africa, but Africa is in a sense inescapable.