Tribe: The Hidden History of the Mountains of the Moon

A chorus of praise greeted this major work by one of Britain’s masters of English prose, winner of the John Llewllyn Rhys Prize and whose earlier novels and stories have been acclaimed by fellow writers as varied as Nina Bawden, Philip Zeigler, Sybille Bedford and Rowan Williams. Tribe tells the story of the establishment of a rebel Kingdom in the remote, glacier-clad Ruwenzori Mountains, on the Congo-Uganda border, by the Bakonzo tribe, among whom the author is an honoured elder or mzee, and of the Bakonzo’s struggle to have their own Kingdom and its King reconciled within Uganda.