Equatoria
THE latest African title to be released by Aflame Books is the finely crafted Equatoria . Set in 1912, Tom Dreyer’s novel recounts the odyssey of two Englishmen commissioned by Antwerp Zoo to bring a live specimen of the okapi back from the Belgian Congo. In early twentieth century Europe, the okapi was known only from descriptions and considered almost as mythical as the unicorn - making the search for this secretive creature a search for truth itself. MORE