African Diary

Nine-year-old Hjalmar and his younger brother, Simon, travelled to South Africa with their father. The country he meets is not the country of his dreams - there are no friendly bushmen waiting to welcome him, only a society in the midst of violent upheaval. Hjalmar befriends children who have lived half their lives under apartheid and the other half under newly found liberalism. Racism is still very much an issue as Hjalmar discovers when he begins to question the motives of his African friends who come to visit him at the great, imposing house where he lives.