[I’m writing this as a note to people because I have another project I want to do this year. That project will be about giving people in AFRICA a chance to tell their story openly in a way where nobody can shut them up. We will bypass all the normal censorship processes which currently exist. I am looking for authors-to-be.

(As an aside, later I might even be looking for people with MUSIC and SONGS which they composed which they want to sell…)

I want to create a LIBRARY of eBooks, ebooklets and eDocuments to be sold, not only on my website, but by other websites too. I will be looking for affiliate websites who want to take part in this. There will be some money in this for both the authors and for anyone who has a website.

Why?

I have realised that there are probably 10,000 (maybe more), people out there in Southern Africa, and in other African countries – some are whites, some are blacks… and they have seen things… or been part of something or close to something of great historical value.

I am sick and tired of misconceptions arising out of Africa’s recent (largely untold) history. So I will be searching for people who have a personal story to tell.

There are many blacks and whites who were soldiers, Policemen or in the Intelligence Services. Maybe they were just low-ranking people, but they might have seen something or been part of something…

There are so many secret wars, massacres, assasinations and political events which have not been written about before – or where the “official version” differs GREATLY from the real facts… as witnessed by someone who was there.

For example:-
1. How many people can give first hand accounts of the biggest war which ever occurred in Africa – in the DRC (formerly Zaire)? 4 million people died… 12 nations were involved… and I’ve until now not seen so much as one paragraph written by anyone on either side about the events. I have seen a few news stories which tell of battalion-sized battles wherein hundreds died in a single engagement. But for the historical record, we need accounts by people on both sides, to explain what roles they played and what they saw.

2. How many people can tell first hand of the war which raged in KwaZulu-Natal between the ANC and the IFP? Thousands were killed in a black-on-black war… the details of which are very murky and largely untold.

3. What of Mugabe’s massacres of 1985? 20,000 – 30,000 Matabele people were killed. Did anyone see it? Did anyone take part in it?

4. What of Mozambique where Renamo fought against Frelimo and Mugabe’s troops? What accounts are there of these battles and operations?

5. What of the Civil War in Angola?

There are myriads of massacres, wars, operations, political games, spy games, etc which have gone on in Africa south of the Sahara for which there are virtually no written accounts.

There must be thousands of untold stories from here in South Africa and Zimbabwe alone… not to mention the rest of Africa.

So… if you took part in this, or know of someone who did, then contact me and submit me a few paragraphs with your story. It might be worthy of a BOOKLET or a BOOK.

Not only might you make some money out of your writings, but even more importantly, you will get to tell your side of the story. And such books, booklets and documents can then be stored on the internet and disseminated by my website and others and it will be of interest to many people around the world who are studying Africa.

Drop me a line at: [email protected] with your synopsis.

There is one friend of mine who triggered this thought for me. I won’t tell you who he is, but he witnessed the aftermath of a massacre. I hit on the idea of getting him to write about it and I know that what he will write WILL be a valuable contribution to the historical record of a certain country. He is already working away at it.

But there must be thousands of people out there with stories of their own to tell. Africa is so ignored and much of what people believe about it bears little resemblance to what actually happened. And its time that we collectively, put more of the truth about Africa out there. Jan]