Our world needs love

What we need now is love . . . just love . . . for all the world and for the people in it.

I’ve just been walking around my garden thinking of the best way to ask all of you — friends, readers, climate change activists, educators, mothers, fathers, children and adults — for your help.

Dust And Rain is about love

My new book – Dust and Rain: Chipo and Chibwe save the Green Valley wants to find many more readers who can spread the message of love, so I need your help.

First of all, it’s a great story and a good read. The book is set in Africa, in Zambia, but it’s a universal story that children (and adults) everywhere will enjoy – and it does make you see things in new ways! See these reviews.

Second, it’s an important book about climate change and the environment (and it would make a great film!). When I first dreamed up Dust and Rain for my five-year-old grandson, Stephen Kupakwesu, I thought of saving trees and charcoal burners and the changing weather patterns created by damming the Zambezi River with Kariba Dam. Now the issue of climate change is even more urgent.

Let me explain how you can help me – please!  Somehow, get hold of my book, read it, share it and promote it for the sake of its important message.

I have given away as many books as I can but still need more readers. If you like, you can buy it immediately via the Books page on this site.

Changing weather affects us all

Today is grey and cloudy but the earth is dry and hard. Increasing carbon in the air holds moisture without giving rain. Sometimes the weather is too hot, sometimes it’s too cold – sometimes just fierce and extreme.

I grew up a farmer’s daughter in Africa so staring at the sky and wishing for rain was what we did. Weather watching and gardening have been my preoccupation all my life.

As I went around my garden this morning I photographed some of the things that are essential for all our lives.

Leave a comment below to tell me if these things matter to you also, even if you have different ways of accessing them than we do in our small rural village.

Treat yourself and others

You can buy my book on Amazon.uk and Amazon.fr and at African Books Collective or at Bookworld or Gadsden Publishers in Lusaka. I hope it will be at the House Of Books in Harare Zimbabwe soon. Please, please – do get a copy and read it. Then – if you think it is good enough – write a review about it.

Another idea is to buy some copies and donate them to a school or a library or an environmental group or wildlife club that you know and where the book will do some good and help raise awareness!

Tidying up

Last I want to apologise for publishing the same post twice last week. Internet problems and rather a lot of travelling around have been disruptive.

I also made a number of corrections to my posts because I asked everyone I met in Zambia and Zimbabwe for feedback and input. This is something I welcome from all of you and appreciate very much when you do respond to my posts. Thank you!