I Am Not Your Slave by Tupa Tjipombo & Chris Lockhart

Author:Tupa Tjipombo & Chris Lockhart
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2019-10-11T06:25:20+00:00

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I was riding in a donkey cart through the Namibian veld. The rush of air on my face was warm but pleasant, and when I tilted my head back and looked up, I saw that it was night. The stars massed in cloudy streaks across a brilliant, midnight-blue sky. All around me the tall grass shimmered in the darkened glow, fluttering in sheets and waves as the wind swirled across the tops.

I was sitting beside my grandfather, who was staring straight ahead with his usual stony visage. He gripped the reins with one hand and held a whip with the other, bringing it down with a sharp crack in regular intervals, driving the donkeys faster and faster across the sea of grass. Astounded, I wondered how he was able to see where we were going. Yet he drove us on zealously, whipping the animals with a thunderous purpose and propelling our tiny cart into the night.

And then I felt an overwhelming presence behind us. Turning to look over my shoulder, I saw that we were spearheading a surging army of wild, trumpeting elephants. They stampeded forward as one, leaving in their wake a solid wall of dust and flying grass that spiraled above us like an angry storm cloud. There must have been thousands, I thought, as I turned back and gripped the wooden bench seat with excitement and anticipation. A feeling of euphoria swept over me and I laughed delightedly into the oncoming night. As the elephants bounded like gazelles on either side of us, I looked up at the Old One and was not afraid.

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