The African American

It is a story set in the forgotten past; in a time that exists only in the oral traditions of local historians and the translated works of the few muslim travellers that saw it firsthand- mediaeval Mali. It is a fictionalized account of life in that sub-saharan kingdom and the many interesting threads linking that society, and that time, to the rest of the world. But it is also a human story about an ordinary boy and his mother's struggles to protect him from a society constantly re-defining itself around them. In their journeys, we discover the things that make us all human, regardless of who we are, where we are and when we are.