Craig Mellow (Kuphela)

Craig's hair is dark and thick and he moves with grace. There is little or no trace of the limp that identifies his disability. Craig works hard to hide the fact that he lost a leg in a minefield that was laid by the security forces of the white Rhodesian government along the Zambezi River many years previously and now too expensive for the current government to remove. Considered by many to be the most important writer to have come out of Africa and held in high regard by public standards, Craig is a perfectionist who still second-guesses his success and his ability to translate into words the country he loves. After groups of people over time attempted to ride on the coattails of his good fortune in the publishing industry, Craig has an undertone of defensiveness, and caution when dealing with new people though he...