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Anchor
& Hope © KJS 2005
Exposé for another
fiction-thriller on Internet
— featuring
Gertrud Steiner & Lainet Musora
— protagonists of Drums within
an Ivory Tower
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London |
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180 days, 23
hrs, 54 mins, 19 secs
to election of the 2012 host city
of the Olympic Games |
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BACKGROUND OF THE PLOT:
Having survived the African adventures in 1989, Gertrud
Steiner has settled as a lecturer for photographic
studies at a college in her German home-town Bremen.
Her friend and co-adventurer, Zimbabwean Lainet Musora,
remained in her country’s capital Harare —
alas, without being able to work as a press photographer
anymore. The tumble of domestic politics and economy in
Zimbabwe, accelerating in the year 2000 — two
decades after independence — combined with drastic
actions by agents of Mugabe’s spin-doctors against
the media, made it suicidal to continue in this field.
Instead, Lainet and her brother Paul, a former ZBC-broadcaster,
ventured into IT-business, setting up and maintaining
websites as a networking tool for regional NGO’s,
thereby helping to empower civic society in Africa.
Both women had turned 25 when they had met in Zimbabwe in
1980, both at that time somehow clue-less with regard to
their personal future, but finally tapping into funds of
a development agency which allowed both of them to
establish a professional career by studying press
photography in Germany.
Both had turned almost 35 when they met again on the
mighty Zambezi-river for an excursion which was supposed
to become a leisure trip but sucked them into a
conspiracy whose international implications did cast
shadows from Africa to Europe, further to the Middle
East, to Russia and to China, and then back to Zimbabwe.*
Both women are
close to 50 now. They remained unmarried, however, Lainet
had adopted Burombo, the little boy who had helped her to
escape from the "Village of Doom" in the
Zambezi-Valley, and Gertrud had been only too keen not to
fail as a second step-mother of this foster-child... (in Shona "Burombo"
means: "child born in poverty")
* "Trommeln
im Elfenbeinturm"A A©
KJS 2004 — Polit-Thriller on CD-Rom,
interactive with sources on the web, German
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