Ken of the Kwandahari

Unscrambling the New Scramble for Africa

Ken Masters dreams of being a hero—a hairy-chested adventurer laughing at danger, collecting Nobel Prizes, and winning the love of a tender goddess. In reality, he’s an awkward professor, lecturing bored students at Prairie University in Hickory Flats.

Then fate strikes. Inspired by Ken’s otherwise overlooked research, Shamgar Van der Meer, the world’s richest man, sweeps Ken off to Africa as his Director of Exploration, hunting a rare-earth mineral that might change the balance of world power—or might not exist at all.

Caught between the corporate greed of Biff Jezos’ Omnizon, Beijing’s Belt-and-Suspenders Initiative, and a rogue’s gallery of spies, scoundrels, and schemers, Ken must rely on two unlikely allies— Shona, a mysterious African princess, and Lorraine, a brilliant, spoiled heiress—and the echo of his father’s half-remembered rhyme—follow your star to Zanzibar.

Ken of the Kwandahari is a riotous romp of scoundrels, shenanigans, espionage, and improbable heroism—an adventure that unscrambles the New Scramble for Africa.