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Elephant people is a compassionate look at elephant conservation in Africa from a novel perspective. This time not the elephants but the people who are confronted with the huge task of conserving the elephants as well as living alongside the largest land mammals on earth are the centre of attention. The documentary reveals how elephant conservation is a thorny issue for many African people living in close contact with these large animals that are admired and loved by many animal activists around the globe. \"Elephant People\" portraits a nearly forgotten \"conflict zone\" in countries like Zimbabwe and Kenya and explores the different approaches the two countries engage to deal with the situation.

An excerpt from the novel Chronicle of an Indomitable Daughter is presented.

Mother's Day is like nothing you've ever seen. Drought has struck. Father pushes his wife away from the family dinner of termites. In anger, when mother challenges him, he digs a pit with a brutal purpose, but little does he suspect that Mother can retaliate just as powerfully. Based on an old Shona folk tale and rendered as a musical celebrating a diversity of contemporary Zimbabwean music, Mother's Day is the newest and most exciting motion picture development to come out of Zimbabwe.

The film investigates what life on an occupied Zimbabwean farm is like from many points of view: the farmers, farm workers and occupiers. Simplistic headlines about the Zimbabwean land invasions break up to reveal a much more complex scenario. Land occupiers, commercial farmers, farm workers, war veterans and researchers, all have stories to tell - stories of a divided society in Southern Africa.

[...]the selfish father had his meal. [...]true to form, the film is based on a grimmer-than-Grimm Shona folktale-though the character of the mother, gracefully played by Consolata Ngwena, is also inspired by the Icelandic singer Björk's character in Lars von Trier's death penalty musical, Dancer in the Dark. Set in colonial Rhodesia, the book was the coming-of-age story of a precocious and tenacious teenaged girl, Tambudzai, who leaves the drudgery of life in her small village for an education at the missionary school run by her uncle only to find that she has traded one system of oppression for another. Mother's Day, the first fruit of those labors, is being released on DVD fall 2006, courtesy of the National Geographic Company. If success had come earlier I might have kept to writing, I think. Because you didn't have to pay at that particular school.