THE LAST CARAVAN and Other Short Stories

About the Book

What can be more exciting or fulfilling, than to bring your enemy to submission, or at least see him brought to his knees like the hunchback, El-Noor who was virtually abducted for ritual purposes only to emerge victorious after the jinn in him has intervened? Jinn! El-Noor couldn't believe that he had one under his beck and call

Enter the weird camel, bold and daring whose anger humbled the powerful king of Sumaiya after a reign of terror that has turned the people into servitude unacceptable to the camel

Then the old Whale, that ruminates on the excesses of the human species and vowed to bring pollution to an end

In this two-part story, African wizardry and witchcraft has gone global in line with the much talked about globalization after conquering the home front

When will the wealth of the world be equitably distributed so that the wealthy can sleep with their two eyes closed?

And won't you be happy if you are made to be productive at last, or do you still prefer servitude and invite the wrath of the brats who warned the people of Ashadalafia: Get up and be productive!

Oh Africa, my Africa, where the extended family system comes in handy, in a world past becoming anonymous and unfamiliar.

About the Author

Bello Musa Dankano was trained as a journalist in the School of Journalism and Television, Frilsham, Hermitage, Berks in 1970 and the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Lagos Nigeria in 1973. He also wrote A Season of Locusts (Informat, Kaduna 1999), Petrol Station (Spectrum Books Ltd, Ibadan, 2004) and My Cousins and I (iUniverse, 2005).