Woman of the Ashes: A Novel (Sands of the Emperor, 1)j Book cover type:Paperback

Woman of the Ashes: A Novel (Sands of the Emperor, 1)j Book cover type:PaperbackThe first in a trilogy about the last emperor of southern Mozambique by one of Africas most important writers Southern Mozambique, 1894. Sergeant Germano de Melo is posted to the village of Nkokolani to oversee the Portuguese conquest of territory claimed by Ngungunyane, the last of the leaders of the state of Gaza, the second largest empire led by an African. Ngungunyane has raised an army to resist colonial rule and with his warriors is slowly

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