Pan-African Political Fiction Author
M.H. APPLETON
Pan-African Political Fiction Author
Thrillers of survival, vengeance & liberation across a changing Africa
Thrillers of survival, vengeance, & liberation across a changing Africa
M.H. APPLETON
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A US Special Envoy is caught on camera negotiating the poisoning of farmland in Tigray.
The footage leaks. No one claims responsibility.
And a prisoner named Shango Badawi — the son of a legendary assassin — becomes the face of a revolution that will burn across Ethiopia.
This is the world of The Hand of Menes.
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