"Masters of the Confluence" has a lot of snippets of stories my grandmother told me. Over ten years since she passed on, I stumbled upon a link in her narratives to the African Explorer, Mungo Park, which also connected the Lander brothers.
Incidentally, the brothers were kidnapped for ransom in a village near to mine, a couple of miles down the River Niger. I knew then that I just had to write this story.
Recently, I had a "visiting friend", who went on to tell me of his ancestors' involvement in the slave trade. It still creeps him out whenever he visits a sea port. The guilt is still running deep.
"Masters of the Confluence" has a lot of snippets of stories my grandmother told me. Over ten years since she passed on, I stumbled upon a link in her narratives to the African Explorer, Mungo Park, which also connected the Lander brothers.
Incidentally, the brothers were kidnapped for ransom in a village near to mine, a couple of miles down the River Niger. I knew then that I just had to write this story.
Recently, I had a "visiting friend", who went on to tell me of his ancestors' involvement in the slave trade. It still creeps him out whenever he visits a sea port. The guilt is still running deep.