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Welcome to EnKare’s world! A magical place of thundering rhino herds, man-eating mud toads, and trees the size of a village. A place where burps and farts are still funny, and a kid can run wild, barefoot and free…at least until he gets his Lion Name. Then the party is over and the drudgery of adulthood begins.
No, thank you! EnKare and his best friend in the whole world, Jioba, have a plan to stay young and free forever! And so far, it’s working out pretty well. But even in this world, the perfect loaf of bread doesn’t always rise as it should.
The Wenye Hekima say choose your steps carefully, for they carry you down the path of Life. But how could he have known where this trail led? It was just another beautiful day in paradise as he stepped into the clearing and found himself face to face with a chui nyeusi. Should he have seen it written in the beast’s viridian eyes? World explorer. Outlaw. Fugitive. Heard the words slip from her mouth like a whisper on the wind? Warrior. Slave. Killer!
Step into EnKare's world to see what he did next, for it is the stuff legends are made of.

The  Badlands! Fifty years ago there was an event. A human war in which all of the nuclear nations of the world rained atomic bombs down on each other from the heavens. Africa, the much used and abused land of that distant, terrible time, was a nuclear free continent. As such, it was not a direct target during Iworo, the holocaust that nearly ended human life on planet Earth. But that was fifty years ago. Today Africa is alive and thriving, but what of the rest of the world? What of Nchi Mbaya, the Badlands? Is there life out there? Or is it a wasteland of radioactive air and acid waters? It is forbidden to travel into Nchi Mbaya, and for good reason. But since when did fifteen year old boys allow good reason and common sense to get in the way of a good adventure? 

Welcome to small town, Mbini. It might not be the exotic Garden City of Accra, but to EnKare and Jioba, it’s paradise. Hugging the beach, right at the mouth of the mighty Benito River, Mbini is home to Iworo survivors from all across Africa. Jioba comes from the town of Luba on the island of Ëtulá a Ëri. When his family moved to Mbini, he and EnKare become best of friends. Inseparable, like the pincers of a giant trap-jaw ant. 

Ah, the ever elegant, always lively bougainvillea! My favorite plant of all time! You’ll find this beauty growing in all of its incredible color variations all around the tropical ring of our planet: vining it’s way up giant trees across Africa, gracing the balcony windows of white-washed homes across Central America, lining the streets of New Deli, India, and ringing the entire circumference of the Mediterranean sea. The bougainvillea is exceptionally drought tolerant, and did you know - the colorful petals you see are not the flower, but the leaves around the flower that have turned bright colors to attract pollinators to the real flower, which is tiny and white and hiding right in the the middle of the color clusters of leaves. To me, the bougainvillea is the ultimate symbol of the magnificence of life on planet Earth!