THE RELIGION AND BELIEFS OF THE BANTU – PART I
THE RELIGION AND BELIEFS OF THE BANTU – PART II
Symbol Writing
Drumbeat
The Spirit of Numbers
March of the Healers
Awake, My Africa!
CHARACTER CAST
| uNkulunkulu | The Great Spirit |
| Ninavanhu-Ma | The Great Mother, Goddess of Creation |
| Tree of Life | Personified male counterpart of the Goddess of Creation |
| Kei-Lei-Si (Nelesi) | Mother of Za-Ha-Rrellel |
| Za-Ha-Rrellel (Sareleli) | Wicked Emperor of the Empire of the First People – Father of all tokoloshes |
| The Kaa-U-La birds | Legendary talking birds |
| Amarava (Mamiravi) | Last survivor of the First People, the Amarire, Mother of the Second People |
| Odu | Last survivor of the Bjaa-Uni – artificially produced flesh-and-blood slaves – Father of the Second People, the Bantu |
| Gorogo | Chief of the Frog People – Father of all Bushmen and Pygmies |
| Marimba | Mother of all Tribal Singers, Goddess of Music, Goddess of Happiness |
| Zumangwe | The Hunter, Marimba’s first husband |
| Watamaraka | The Goddess of Evil, Mother of all Demons |
| The Monster | Dragon commissioned to exercise control over Wata-Maraka |
| Kahawa | Son of Marimba and Zumangwe |
| Mpushu | Ka-Hawa’s closest friend |
| Witchdoctor and his friend in the First Village of the Wakambi Tribe | |
| Namuwiza | The Priestess, a Witch in the same village |
| Nangai | – of the Mountains, Outcast God of the Masai, subsequently Chief of the Wakambi |
| Mulungu | The Father of Light |
| Koma-Tembo | The Masai captive, third husband of Marimba |
| Dzumangwe | The God of Hunting |
| Ka-Hawa’s two wives | |
| Rarati | Nubian girl who introduced cattle to the Bantu |
| Malinge | Youth executed for wantonly killing an animal |
| His father, grandfather and great-grandfather | |
| The High Accuser | Legal Prosecutor |
| The Mercy of Heaven | Legal Defendant |
| Mandingwe | A cook |
| Kamago | A woodcarver |
| Nonikwe | A blind, hunchback ‘clairvoyant’ |
| Mutengu | Her uncle, Headman of a village |
| Lusu | Her real father |
| Luchiza | Mutengu’s son |
| Mbomongo | A one-eyed scoundrel, a fellow conspirator |
| Kalembe | The Wizard-Lord of the Wakambi |
| Lumbedu | The Witchdoctor – usurped Chieftainship |
| High wives of Lumbedu | |
| Sons of Lumbedu and Ojoyo | |
| Temana | Gumbu’s Batswana wife |
| Songozo | Headman of a neighbouring village |
| Mbimba | Boy from Songozo’s village |
| Chikongo | Lover of Lulinda, youngest wife of Lumbedu |
| Timburu | His grandfather |
| Mburu | His father |
| Manjanja | His mother |
| Chwenyana | Another of his father’s wives |
| Chungwe | High Chief of the tribe |
| The Strange Ones | Ma-Iti – Phoenicians, probably from the town of Gatti |
| Their ‘King’ | |
| His Son | |
| The Red-haired Giant | |
| The Odd Man | Arab slave to the Strange Ones |
| Another Odd Man | |
| The Tribal Avengers | The men who enforce tribal law |
| Mulaba | Chief of the Batswana |
| A Headman of a neighbouring village | |
| Zozo | Hunchback brother of Vunakwe, wife of Lumbedu |
| Kadimo | Son of Dimo |
| Dimo | His father, King of the Cannibals |
| Sodimo | His grandfather |
| Karesu | Emperor of the Phoenicians’ Empire in Africa |
| Kadesi | Successor to Karesu, but murdered by him |
| Makira-Kadesi | Half-caste Empress, successor to her murdered husband |
| The Boy Emperor | Last Ruler in the Phoenicians’ Empire |
| A Nobleman in the Phoenicians’ Empire. | |