About the Book
Keke, a veteran MK Cadre who was once the CEO of a cellphone company, wakes up one day to find his life in ruins. He has lost his job and his wife, and he has become more and more reliant on the solace of alcohol. After hitting rock bottom, Keke is thrust into a spiritual journey. He meets Ami, a shaman from Mali, and travels there, where he is �cooked� and cleansed in a �meeting� with his ancestors. Only when he is healed, and understands his role in the context of a post-apartheid South Africa, can Keke make a careful comeback to his country to rejoin his wife and comrades. The global village, the African continent and South Africa are the platforms where Keke�s life unfolds in the 21st century.
About the Author
Born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, Mongane Wally Serote was drawn to poetry and writing towards the end of his high school career and went on to obtain a fine arts degree in New York at Columbia University in 1979. As a cadre for Umkhonto weSizwe he spent time in Botswana, where he was instrumental in setting up the Medu Arts Ensemble.
He is the recipient of the 1993 Noma Award for Publishing in Africa, and received the Pablo Neruda Award from the Chilean government in 1994. In 2012, Serote won the prestigious Golden Wreath Award. He joins Leopold Sedar Sengor of Senegal as one only two recipients to come from the African continent. The Golden Wreath Award is bestowed each year as a lifetime achievement in the field of poetry.
