A story about an adventure!

From the Author

Before I traveled the world, I used to believe the largest population of Blacks outside continental Africa was in the United States. Today I am no longer sure that is true. After five years in Saudi Arabia, I returned to America armed with the knowledge that there are millions of Blacks quietly living in the Middle East as citizens of the various nations of that region. Why and how all of these people have remained undiscovered for so long is a story in itself. Similar discoveries were being made in the western hemisphere around that same time period, however, several years would pass before that information would become commonly known. In the decade of the 1980s media attention was focused on the struggle by Brazilian environmentalist Chico Mendes to save the Amazon rain forest. However, buried under all of those reports was the little known fact that deep encroachment into the Amazon jungle by developers had inadvertently exposed thousands of communities that had been lost to civilization for centuries. The residents are a mixed community of natives and Blacks who have descended from Africans that fled from the Brazilian coastal plantations of past centuries and purposely lost themselves in the Amazon jungle. Odds are they would still be isolated from society if expansion into the forest had not taken place.

As additional forgotten Black communities rejoin mainstream society, it will become easier to find answers to the important question - What happened to the millions of transplanted Africans that remained unaccounted for over the centuries?

Whatever happens over the course of this 21st century, it is fair to state that Blacks worldwide will have a decidedly different perception of themselves by the year 2100. Blacks will have a clearer idea of the size of our populations within and outside of Africa. By then the label minority group will finally be discarded as inaccurate. Even now there are more than a billion of us earthwide arguably making us the second largest ethnic group behind the Chinese. As this century proceeds and our world shrinks ever more the global market will tighten considerably. I am convinced that societal pressures will force Blacks to forge their own market niche in the global economy. The greater the extent of interation between the communities the more everyone will benefit. Perhaps there will be student exchanges, new exotic vacation destinations and the entertainment industry will cater to venues stretching from Los Angeles to San Juan to Rio de Janeiro to Paris to Istanbul to Basra to Riyadh to Nairobi to Johannesburg to Kuala Lumpur to South Tawara and dozens of cities yet to be founded and named. Many are unaware that a new day has already dawned for the Black populations of the world; a day that will bring a reverse payoff of a sort as a consequence of the dispersion of Africans by Arab and European slavers in past centuries.

I had amazing adventures in the desert kingdom and made incredible discoveries about Blacks in the Middle East. That journey and the emergence of thousands of hidden Black communities in South America are two of the reasons I was inspired to write this story. Additional research has strengthened my conviction that what I have written as fiction will some day be reality. Critics will likely label my vision of an international network of Black communities all cooperating together for mutual financial benefit as an impossible dream. To this I would respond that Jules Verne was also considered a dreamer in his time. And now many of the machines he immortalized in fiction are integral components of human society. Stranger things have happened.

Bringing this story to life was a profoundly satisfying accomplishment and I am thrilled to participate in a discussion that will grow in scope and importance over the course of this century.

Sumanth

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