A princess  trapped in a high tree and a brash young man determined to “rescue” her;  a devoted daughter searching for a magical spring to save her ailing  father; a teenage girl who is forced to replace her mobile phone with a  machete to protect her family from zombies—all their stories interweave  in a stirring alchemy set in a rich African backdrop. Ted Neill moves  readers from folktale to action, comedy to cosmology, rural to urban,  material to spiritual, with the ease of a master storyteller, crafting  an adventure along the way that will appeal to the head, the heart, and  the soul.

About the Author: Before becoming a writer, Ted Neill  worked in Global Health and Education. These stories were inspired when  Neill was volunteering and living at an orphanage for HIV+ children in  Nairobi Kenya. He wrote Jamhuri, Njambi, & Fighting Zombies when the  children requested stories featuring people and places that reflected  their own culture and their own world.