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Synopsis of  THE AFRICAN VERSION OF TARZANA AND HAMUM. 

The African Version of Tarzana And Hamum is an adventure novel set mainly in the Gold Coast (that is Ghana in West Africa), but also with sections in Britain, the United States, and the Caribbean. This story basically traces the life of Tarzan, but it differs from the version of Edgar Rice Burroughs since I argue that it was the Ashanti tribe of Chief Kerchak which found and raised Tarzana.

It was a combination of a mistake and a prejudiced outlook that made Major Edgar Rice, a British soldeir in the Gold Coast (Ghana) around 1910, after finding Tarzana with the Ashantis, concluded wrongly and deceived the world.

He claimed that Tarzana was raised by apes, and not Abes, a small tribe in West Africa, because he would prefer to think of white child as being raised by apes than suckled by a black woman.

Tarzana, son of Kala (or Tarzan as he became known to the world), and Chief Kerchak's son Hamumbruk, grew up like brothers in Kerchaki District in the forests north of Accra. But in 1914, he led Major Rice and his company of British warriors to Kerchaki, killing Chief Kerchak and wiping out the last pocket of resistance to early British colonial rule.

Hamum had to leave Ghana on a ship that was taking "volunteers" from the colony to fight for Britain in World War 1. During and after the war, he traveled many places in Europe, North America, and the Caribbean.

NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR.

Neville Farki is a Jamaican currently living in Maryland.  He is an Economist, but his first love is writing novels.  He has been writing novels, technical publications, and computer programs for over ten years.

Neville has written a number of novels based on different social themes. His published novels are "A Week In Blue Hole" and "The Unexpected Visitor" which focuses on the problems of a woman in an abusive marriage. He intends to write other novels in this series.

The African Version of Tarzana And Hamum is about racism.

Neville wants to get his novels made into movies.

You can send your comments about this novel to;  Neville2@CariAmPromo.Net

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(Synopsis continued.) After hearing Marcus Garvey speak in New York in 1921, Hamum Kerchak renewed his resolve to return to Africa to help reclaim his birthplace for "Africans at home and abroad".

In 1926, Hamum returned to Africa and three years later, he and Kulonga, son of Chief Mbonga of the Fanti Tribe, led a group of Fanti and Ashanti soldiers who fought Tarzana and the British warriors in a bitter battle for survival. Major Rice narrowly escaped death so was able to perpetuate the myth of "Tarzan of the Apes - King of the Jungle."

But to set the record straight, here is the real story of Tarzana and Hamum.