'Okavango Gods' by Anthony Fleischer

At one level Okavango Gods is a fast–moving adventure ´at the mouth of rivers´, a story of a young Humbukushu man, Pula Barotse, and his beloved friend Julia, daughter of the Portuguese doctor at Shakawe clinic. Together the young couple struggle to contend with the traditional rituals of sacrifice for rain, and with the biggest flood ever to hit the Okavango delta. At another level, it is an allegory of Africa – mystical and beautiful, both wayward and ordered – evoking the ancient history of Gilgamesh and the flood.