Take a Journey Through Africa and See It With Your Soul

Naidu allows us to join him in his mid-life crisis as he journeys into an Africa that few of us get to truly experience. There's no new camera and bug spray in his luggage, as he packs a backpack and heads north from his comfortable suburban South African upbringing into the wild African unknown.

 

It's a movingly honest account of his time spent traveling and living amongst the people of rural Zambia, his westernized way of thinking constantly challenged as he becomes accustomed to a new way of life.

 

Whether he's bumping into wild rhino at night, sitting in the shade of mango trees with the villagers, sharing in their 'local brew', or learning the intricacies of smuggling items across the border for business, what he discovers along the way about life and himself is so clear and simple, yet so difficult to apply.

 

It's a journey that will have you thinking about everything - where your food comes from and with whom you share it, to how you'd go about fighting off competitors to get the prized liver from a recently culled elephant.

 

"In the tradition of Homer's Odyssey and Herman Hesse's Siddhartha, My Life My Africa invites the reader to experience a young man's journey to find his truth and to test himself against the forces of life that tempt him to abandon his soul and his beliefs."