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After the assassination of one of Malis greatest kings, the traitors behind the coup set out to erase his legacy from Malis history.Their efforts fail when the youngest princess of Mali escapes with her newborn child to the Tuareg tribes in the Sahara. When her grief turns into hatred. The exiled princess swears an oath of vengeance against the family that unjustly stole Malis throne. That oath becomes her legacy and is passed down through the generations to her descendants.Over a century after the Keita took the throne. The Mali Empire has experienced great prosperity as well as turmoil. Coming off a tumultuous period wracked with plague, civil war, and political instability. Musa III begins the process of restoring the empire to its former glory. This restoration takes the form of an unprecedented tournament designed to find the most capable warrior to assume the role of Malis imperial general.Diata is the heir who carries his familys vendetta against the Keita. When word of the tournament reaches his clan. Diata sees his opportunity to get close to the enemy. To become the next general, he needs to make his way through several mercenaries, a pirate king, and dozens of other warriors bred for war on the battlefield.
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Well I've just seen what someone has written about me on Wikipedia and what Amazon has summarised on this author page for me. Historian, author, speaker, archivist, museum curator ... It pretty much sums my life up. So what else can I say? I own up to having been Trust Archivist at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, since 1989, subsequently Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, and Curator of the Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum which I set up in 1993. It all sounds a long time ago but it seems like yesterday. I studied history at Hertford College, University of Oxford, and qualified as an archivist at University College, London. I have worked at the Bodleian Library in Oxford and also been archivist to a girls' school, a rare male member of staff not to be confused with the 'sixth form boyfriend', and to a film archive in my time.Believe me, my biography of Alexander Fleming was ironically the book I had never planned to write as, on my appointment to set up an archives service at St Mary's Hospital, I had decided that I would avoid such a controversial subject. A vain hope and I was soon being cited as an authority on Fleming and the story of penicillin, so that was a spur to knowing even more and sharing that knowledge with the world. Once on the roll of writing, I then turned my attention to other areas of medical history ranging from the social history of syphilis to military and naval medicine. An interest in maritime history led to my latest book on the emigrant experience. I have now returned to the subject of naval medicine for "The Seasick Admiral: Nelson and the Health of the Navy".I've also found myself in demand to give talks on the history of medicine. I have lectured widely at home, abroad and at sea, with audiences ranging from academic conferences, university departments and schools to after dinner speaking, after lunch talks, women's institutes and cruise ship passengers. I hope that I manage to amuse and entertain as well as inform my audiences and, yes, I do actually get invited back a second or more time by some groups, perhaps because I have a wide repertoire of talks or I go well with the menu.I've enjoyed the gigs I've done in the United States starting with when I was the first historian to be, in 2001, the Andrew J. Moyer Lecturer at the United States Department of Agriculture National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research at Peoria, Illinois. National Tartan Day in Washington DC and a day of seminars, meetings and delivering a lecture at Johns Hopkins University bring back happy memories not to mention Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Rutgers even nominated me for a visiting professorship but that, sadly, never happened. Often I've combined lecturing opportunities with research trips to American archives and to meet North Americans who have made history. Writing about the US contribution to the development of penicillin, the Tuskegee Experiment and, most
