The Roaring Lion and Wedding Bells
Subtitle: in the Hearts of Tigers  &  Leopards
Publisher: BookSurge Publishing
Published: July 17, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 538
Subjects: AZARIA J. C. MBATHA; Fiction / General
First sentence: It was the silent time before dawn, along the shores of what had been one of the most beautiful 

lakes at Hluhluwe in South Africa. For almost two years now little rain had fallen; the earth had baked; the water had lowered and become increasingly saline. South Africa has been called a rainbow nation. Its history, as seen through the eyes of Azaria Mbatha, is both complex, complicated, and full of moments of strength and beauty.
Description: PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:
The Roaring Lion and Wedding Bells by Azaria Mbatha is an exquisitely written novel set in South Africa. Using the metaphor of the lion, tiger and leopard, the author explores the concept of multiculturalism and the need for people to peaceably coexist.
 It involves the struggle of the characters to wrap their minds, philosophically, around the effects of colonialism and the oppression of peoples (classes, races, and sexes) while at the same time constructing a valid response that fights oppression without resorting to violence or becoming the evil one is attempting to eradicate.


About the Author
Azaria Mbatha was born in South Africa and now considers himself a citizen of the universe. He lives in Skåne, Sweden.
Notes: One of the Notes:

The contemporary outcome in South Africa reflects both features, those generically African and those specifically South African. The situation leading to the non-racial elections of1994 is a confluence of several historical developments. The first is the shift to apartheid rule in the late 1940s, exception to the wind ‘wind of change’ then blowing across the continent, a wind that in its wake brought state independence to unsettled colonies. 2. Force removal, 3. The decade of peace after Sharpeville, ended with the Durban strikes of 1973 and the Soweto uprising of 1976. Resistance shifted from an exile based armed struggle to an internal popular struggle. 4. The original and main social base of independent unionism that followed the Durban strike of1973 was migrant labor. An explosion of the rural in the urban by 1990s after the reforming the apartheid laws. The seesaw struggle between state repression and the urban uprising had reached a stalemate by the mid -1980s. Several Dramatic reforms by the Government turn things worse. The first was the 1986 removal of influx control and the abolition of pass laws, thereby reversing the legacy of forced removals People flocked and by 1993 according to moist estimates, the shanty population encircling many townships was at around eight million suddenly come back where they once were forced to leave to rural. In 1990 the release of political prisoners and the unbanning of exile based organizations that left the Sharpeville 60s. Now, they come with their children born abroad (ANC) aboard. All that combined together with the four year negotiation process, called the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) The resulting constitutional consensus ensured the National Party substantial powers in the for a least five years after the non-racial elections of 1994.
Table of contents: value: The book organization has a format for: 1. History of the author. 2. Short history of South Africa. Style/Genre/Characterization: International Politics, Civil & Human Rights, Peoples & Cultures, Fiction.Africa .3. Journals 4. Problem issues for cultural identify. (Kindle edition) by Azaria Mbatha has  a different organisation of the same book, i.e. introduction &  topic on Art are replaced at the end of the K. edition, also for the Mobipocket- eBook.)