Why a Booktrail?
1970s, 1980s: An American and an African meet on the streets of Nairobi and a love affair beings.. but consequences are not far behind.
Journey Towards a Falling Sun
What you need to know before your trail
A hard-drinking, philandering American engineer meets a prim and proper African professor. Despite their differences they fall in love but the politics of Nairobi will make things hard for them. Kenyan politics will create problems that neither of them want or could have foreseen. Things become so bad that they see only one way out.
And so their real African Adventure begins…
Travel Guide
Towards a Falling Sun tells of a heroic struggle against all odds and a search for cultural identity in a rapidly changing Africa.
This rapidly changing Africa is evoked via it politics, scenery and love between the couple and the result is a rich tapestry of human relations and compassion.
Their adventure begins on the streets of Nairobi which they soon have to leave as the situation there becomes unbearable. So they start on their journey eastwards – towards the sun-
And what a journey this is for we see a range of things through the eyes of the couple who are able to share different view from us since their backgrounds are so different from each others. They say opposites attract and their opposing views show us a side to Africa we may never have seen before.
Daryl Loomis, the ex-pat American shows us a Kenya of the late 1970’s-early 80’s. His job is to drill for water all over the Kenyan landscape to allow oil companies to them come in and drill for their oil.
The presence of oil in Africa brings with it stories an anecdotes of corrupt African governments, clashing African cultures and needs and the old way of life vying for attention along with the new.
Nairobi in 1979
A sea of ethic diversity:African businessmen nattily dressed in three piece suits and tasteful ties, circumspect indians, Sikhs in extravagant turbans, Somalis with faces of burnt copper and Arabized Indianised Swahili, an indigenous race from the coast of East Africa
Not to mention the Masai Warriors…
And that’s before they undergo a trek through the harsh desert on the Kenyan border….
This is a story of landscapes people and cultures passing by as the two characters go on a journey of their own and take you with them.
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