Katleho Kevin Moeca’s book Gods of the SADC Region is about two empires in a SADC region that have been dominating for decades with one empire dealing in debt collection and the other a body that holds government accountable.

He said the project was borne of a desire to paint a different picture of Africa, deliberately breaking away from the stereotypical narrative of ‘Wild Africa’ and the focus on our troubled past. 

The plot is set in Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and South Africa, the domain of one family, and Angola, DRC, Malawi, Namibia, Tanzania, and Zambia, the territory of the other.

“Instead, my setting is a futuristic Africa where cutting-edge tech is endemic, which is not so farfetched considering the number of medical and telecommunications innovations that originate from Africa.”

The two rival families, the Shadows, named by the people who fear them, and the Red Walking Demons named because of their actions, he said.

The book was officially launched on Thursday (10/10) in Fairland in Johannesburg, “and it is the first step towards the fulfillment of a bigger project.”

The book is available on Takealot, Amazon, and Draft2Digital. Photo supplied

The book is meant to inspire readers, particularly young Africans, to have a different view of the continent, despite the involvement of crime and the underworld.

Moeca mentioned the youth of today aren’t very excited about reading because there aren't a lot of mind-grabbing thrillers in bookstores, they are filled with motivational books, struggle books, and apartheid heroes.

“When reading the book, it is very descriptive, painting detailed word pictures from cover to cover and that is why I refer to it as a literary project because the ultimate goal is to have the story told in a motion picture format.”

‘The book is meant to inspire young Africans’

Orders can also be placed on Facebook @Katleho Kevin Moeca: The Storyteller.

OFM News/Zenande Mpame dg