“Everything was strange, but everything was for the taking.”

The Belgian Congo. 1898. The modernizing world is clamoring for rubber —electricity and automobiles. The Congo has vast resources of natural wealth—exotic woods, cotton, coffee, ivory, diamonds.

And the labor to extract the wealth is already on site. It just requires someone with the nerve to put the natives to work.

By any means necessary.

Thematically and conceptually, Dicho Ilunga’s epic, historical novel, “Dancing with Cannibals” takes up where “The Heart of Darkness” and “Things Fall Apart” leave off.

Dicho Ilunga has never heard of Conrad or Achebe. He has never been out of the African continent. Born in Zaire, he ran for his life to Rwanda. He had some trouble there. He is now a citizen of South Africa.

by  Dicho Ilunga Disashi  (Author)  

Witches, angels, child brides—the cases that come to an African private eye are not the tales you usually read about. 

What David Kifwafwa wants out of life is to make his way to success in the teeming and dangerous east African city of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

He’s a widow and a single parent. He’s struggling to hold on to his failing business empire. He’s in love with a captivating beauty queen.

And then he decides to take up fighting crime through ubuntu— by serving all of humanity. Nothing less will do. But how do you do that and live?

The Double-Decker Detective is what results when a gifted African author takes The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency for a spin.