Goodreads asked Pramudith D. Rupasinghe:

How do you get inspired to write?

Pramudith D. Rupasinghe It was my father who was the secret behind my dream to come to Africa. His ‘Free-time stories’ about Africa gave birth to a dream for me to pursue. After three decades of dreaming I was able to reach Africa as a diplomat that was the point where the long lasted dream became a reality. When I reached Africa, the continent was not the same, not same as what I heard of. it had been transformed to a significant extent, simply many things were no like how they were described in ‘free-time stories’ but my father had already left this world by that time, I did not have a chance to tell him how his ‘free-time stories’ had brought me to Africa and how different Africa is, hence I thought of documenting the the journey of my dream in the continent of darkness, that was in reality a pursuit of ‘footprints’ in ‘obscurity’.

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