The Forgotten Kingdom
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The Forgotten Kingdom

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Summary

The challenge of poor economies/societies in catching up with developed communities is the absence of leadership skills. The bold and the daring often assume leadership posts meant for the talented The Forgotten Kingdom Manuscript The Forgotten kingdom is a novel by Denford Jera, a Zimbabwean upcoming writer. The book is about an African community untouched by colonization that is now battling to play catch up with other surrounding communities in terms of civilization development that was laid by the colonialists. The book explores various challenges faced by African countries in trying to proceed further from the foundation laid by the colonial masters and the donor community. The problems range from brain drain, lack of leadership skills or rather absence of systems that promote the ascendency to leadership positions of only those individuals with proven leadership and management skills, conservative mentality that limits exploration of life itself and absence of sacrifice by current generations to set a solid stage for future generations The book is centred on a youthful chief, Nicodemus Musharu, who is selected by the spirits of the land to inherit the throne after his father ahead of his elder brothers. The selection of Nicodemus ahead of his two elder brothers symbolises how leadership skills are ignored in the African leadership nominations. His elder brothers had mo

Status
Complete
Chapters
13
Rating
4.7 (3 reviews)
Age Rating
13+

Prologue

Like an ancient fort stands the kingdom in isolation

The one that civilization dared not touch

Read as taboo to enter by the mighty feet of technology

Cut off from the rest of the world by a boundary of dense thicketed mountains

In the middle of nowhere stands the bubbly community

Hidden from neighbouring kingdoms by primitiveness

Veiled in mysteries and conspiracies astounding even to the gods themselves

Only navigated by the birds of the sky

Life therein resembling life inside a moth’s cocoon

The one inside cannot see the one outside, neither does the one outside see the one inside

A thick fog blinding the path of the missionaries and early pioneers

Strong traditional and cultural practices standing like a barrier to externals

Permeated only by the feet of the merchants

But remaining daunting to return to for even the bravest of treasure hunters

It’s forever fogging mountains giving false pretence of a dead community

Yet a beehive to those within the kingdom

A no go area for the faint hearted

Revered like the shrine of a powerful medium

But home sweet home for the inhabitants

Welcome to the forgotten kingdom

Where development is a stranger, civilization an enemy and technology a mystery

It is the forgotten kingdom

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