Written in 1970s, in a watershed between the traditional and the modern, this is an anthology by young people from Western Zambia on traditional village life. In prose and poetry, through descriptive narrative and myth, topics include KUOMBOKA - the annual migration of people and their cattle from the Upper Zambezi flood plain to the forest edges when the waters rise; then comes Birth and Beginnings, Children's Games, Dance, Initiation, Fishing, Hunting, Women and their Work, Traditional Diseases and their Cures and, briefly, Death.