To be published: Q4 2025
One ocean, two seas, three continents. His name was Nsaku Ne Vunda and he was born around 1583 on the banks of the Congo River. An orphan raised in respect for his ancestors and traditions, educated by missionaries, baptised on the day of his ordination at Dom Antonio Manuel, he was commissioned by the Bakong King here at the very beginning of the 17th century to become his envoy to the Pope. As he bids farewell to his native Congo, the young priest is unaware that the long journey that is to take him to Rome will eventually lead to the New World and that the ship he is about to embark on is loaded with slaves…
An adventure novel and a tale of the formation of “one ocean, two seas and three continents” plunges this little-known figure from history, a real-life African Candide armed with inexhaustible compassion, into a series of adventures that will challenge his faith in God and man.
Wilfried N’Sondé, full of poetic fervour and generous honesty, has written a stunning appeal to tolerance, extolling the essential virtues of equality, fraternity and hope.