Afro-Indian Dreams Trilogy
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This book is a compilation of the 3 stories that Nelson Mandela phoned me personally to say were ‘Wonderful’ at their publication in the year 2000. The stories are from the individual perspective of 3 children; one from South Africa, one from the Punjab in India and one from Falmouth in Jamaica. Each story provides an accurate historical background setting.
Throughout my life I have always been fascinated by the cultures, customs, development and history of three countries from the other side of my world. The 3 countries are Africa, India and Jamaica.
With regard to Africa and its violent history, it has always interested me how an armed militant and anti apartheid activist in the early 60s became the peace maker supreme from the mid 90s onwards. As leader and co-founder of ‘Umkhonto we Sizwe,’ an armed wing of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela could well have been expected to leave his prison after 27 years of incarceration resentful and angry. Instead, it was largely due to his peaceful advocacy and leadership that South Africa was able to get rid of apartheid and elect him as its first black leader in 1994.
The African story is entitled ‘The Valley of the Two Tall Oaks’ and is based in the South Africa of old where all tribes warred for supremacy. It tells the story of one tribe who was a peaceful tribe in a violent time, and how the dream of each successive leader of that tribe was carried by them from one generation to the next and was passed from one chief to the next, like a baton in a relay team; until it eventually finished up in the hands of Nelson Mandela; the greatest tribal chief of all.
Between 2000 and 2003, I worked with the Education minister in the Jamaican Government to develop a transatlantic pen-pal project between 30 Falmouth Schools of children and 30 schools of children in Yorkshire, England. During this period I wrote four books which were published to raise funds for Jamaican schools and to raise awareness of the area of Falmouth, Jamaica in particular.
After 2 trips out there and obtaining the necessary background research, the book ‘Bucket Bill’ was published and the story was used in the school curriculum of all 30 Falmouth schools. Being an area that now depends solely on tourism for its revenue, most of the young people of Falmouth have a dream of living a better life in either England or the USA. I therefore wanted to help reverse this emigration trend wherever possible by highlighting the positives of its own region above that of all others.
As a young man of 18 years in 1960, I made friends with an Indian man called David who came from the Punjab and as a consequence of his culture, only one of my friends would socially mix with him in public. This was a time in Great Britain when racism was rife.
During my 3 years of contact with David before he returned to live in India, he taught me much about the customs and traditions of his native land: particularly the Punjab. Whilst there were some customs and traditions that I found alien and unacceptable, there was much more about the Indian way that pleased me.
I was particularly impressed by the capacity of so large a continent to embrace so many different cultures and religions side-by-side. However, I was less stuck by its obvious privileges afforded to the males over that of the females and was unsure about the merits of arranged marriages, when the bethrothed couple were but boy and girl.
‘Indian Dreams Come True’ tells the story of a girl from the Punjab, who from childhood dreams about the man she will one day marry. She dreams that he will be the most handsome, wealthiest and most intelligent of all Indian men. When the time comes for her to pick a husband, she faces a dilemma from the 4 suitors who want to marry her. One suitor is handsome, the second is wealthy, the third is intelligent and the fourth is an uneducated, blind man of extreme poor circumstances and modest lo
William Forde
William Forde was born in Ireland and currently lives in Haworth, West Yorkshire with his wife Sheila. He is the father of five children and the author of over 60 published books and two musical plays. Approximately 20 of his books are suitable for the 7-11 year old readers while the remainder are suitable for young persons and adults. Since 2010, all of his new stories have been written for adults under his 'Tales from Portlaw' series of short stories. His website is www.fordefables.co.uk on which all his miscellaneous writings may be freely read. There are also a number of children's audio stories which can be freely heard.He is unique in the field of contemporary children's authors through the challenging emotional issues and story themes he addresses, preferring to focus upon those emotions that children and adults find most difficult to appropriately express.One of West Yorkshire's most popular children's authors, Between 1990 and 2002 his books were publicly read in over 2,000 Yorkshire school assemblies by over 800 famous names and celebrities from the realms of Royalty, Film, Stage, Screen, Politics, Church, Sport, etc. The late Princess Diana used to read his earlier books to her then young children, William and Harry and Nelson Mandela once telephoned him to praise an African story book he had written. Others who have supported his works have included three Princesses, three Prime Ministers, two Presidents and numerous Bishops of the realm. A former Chief Inspector of Schools for OFSTED described his writing to the press as 'High quality literature.' He has also written books which are suitable for adults along with a number of crossover books that are suitable for teenagers and adults.Forever at the forefront of change, at the age of 18 years, William became the youngest Youth Leader and Trade Union Shop Steward in Great Britain. In 1971, He founded Anger Management in Great Britain and freely gave his courses to the world. Within the next two years, Anger Management courses had mushroomed across the English-speaking world. During the mid-70's, he introduced Relaxation Training into H.M. Prisons and between 1970 and 1995, he worked in West Yorkshire as a Probation Officer specialising in Relaxation Training, Anger Management, Stress Management and Assertive Training Group Work.He retired early on the grounds of ill health in 1995 to further his writing career, which witnessed him working with the Minister of Youth and Culture in Jamaica to establish a trans-Atlantic pen-pal project between 32 primary schools in Falmouth, Jamaica and 32 primary schools in Yorkshire.William was awarded the MBE in the New Year's Honours List of 1995 for his services to West Yorkshire. He has never sought to materially profit from the publication of his books and writings and has allowed all profit from their sales (approx £200,000) to be given to charity. Since 2013, he was diagnosed with CLL; a terminal condition for which he is currently receiving treatment.In 2014, William had his very first 'strictly for adult' reader's novel puiblished called‘Rebecca’s Revenge'. This book was first written over twenty years ago and spans the period between the 1950s and the New Millennium. He initially refrained from having it published because of his ‘children’s author credentials and charity work’. He felt that it would have conflicted too adversely with the image which had taken a decade or more to establish with his audience and young person readership. Now, however as he approaches the final years of his life and cares less about his public image, besides no longer writing for children (only short stories for adults since 2010), he feels the time to be appropriate to publish this ‘strictly for adults only’ novel alongside the remainder of his work.In December 2016 he was diagnosed with skin cancer on his face and two weeks later he was diagnosed with High-grade Lymphoma (Richter’s Transformation from CLL). He was successfully treated during the first half of 2017 and is presently enjoying good health albeit with no effective immune system.
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