"Waters of the Sanjan is fiction based on fact, woven around the
life of a known (Masai) warrior who lived at the turn of the
century. It is an historical novel and the events portrayed were
not unusual in the life of a warrior of those times. The customs
and traditions are accurate; the places where events took place are
real places and to date still go by the same name the Waters of the
Sanjan, translated literally, Inkariak-oo-Sanjan, means "The Waters
of Sweehearts," and in fact is a place that lies to the North of
the famous treeless undulating savannah known the world over as The
Serengeti, and to the Masai as Sirinket. Isirinket are the people
that lived in the now unique Serengeti National Park in Tanzania.
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(Die Wasser des Sanjan) "Waters of the Sanjan is fiction based on
fact, woven around the life of a known (Masai) warrior who lived at
the turn of the century. It is an historical novel and the events
portrayed were not unusual in the life of a warrior of those times.
The customs and traditions are accurate; the places where events
took place are real places and to date still go by the same name
the Waters of the Sanjan, translated literally, Inkariak-oo-Sanjan,
means "The Waters of Sweehearts," and in fact is a place that lies
to the North of the famous treeless undulating savannah known the
world over as The Serengeti, and to the Masai as Sirinket.
Isirinket are the people that lived in the now unique Serengeti
National Park in Tanzania. "The author is perhaps one of the last
lifelong European Tanzanian settlers, who possesses an intimate
knowledge of the Masai. He has, since childhood mixed freely in
friendship with both their children and the elders, and has had a
unique opportunity to observe their way of life and customs."
Geoffrey Cotterell, Tanzanian Affairs Waters of the Sanjan is an
accurate and admirable historic record of my people, recording
their way of life at another point in time, yet not so very long
ago. And because not many truly authentic books have been written
about us, it is, I think, a valuable record of a proud people that
will enlighten the reader and allow him to glimpse another world.
He may, perhaps, shudder at the horror of some of the more violent
sections, but he will emerge the wiser for knowing and
understanding a little of what our forefathers had to cope with,
and what they suffered, not only at the hands of encroaching
colonialism, but at the hand of nature; climatic disaster, diseases
of man and beast and inter/intra tribal wars that were the norm and
claimed with monotonous regularity the lives of many." Foreword
from Ole Ntekerei Memusi
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