Stories

This section is devoted to a selection of memories from the often distant past. They relate to various chapters in my or the family’s history. The African ones happened when we were living in a small bush town Kaoma, in the Western Province of Zambia. We were there in the latter half of the 1970s. It has, of course, changed greatly since those days.

• Makishi

  There were a number of different tribes whose areas converged on our part of western province. One of the tribes had this custom of when a number of boys in the area had reached the age when they could be admitted as men into the tribe they had to undergo a special rite of passage. The details of what happened...