Der Ruf der Savanne

A spear, a notebook, seven generations — and a truth that waited a hundred and forty years.

When forensic scientist Zara Okello is summoned to the deathbed of the ancient Father Augustin Mbele, he spends seven days telling her the story of her family: from Olengoti, who took up the spear in 1888, through an Ashcombe caravan that carried pox and death into a Maasai enkang in 1900, to a 1978 murder that was never answered for. An epic saga of colonialism, guilt, and the echo of the dead in the living — from East Africa to London, from 1872 to the present day.