An African epic...
... where fauna and flora meets mankind and explores mysteries and struggles of the African continent.
The story is currently being produced as a powerful and emotional TV-series, rooted in a legendary African story-telling where nature and mankind are one. The Queen Panther explores the real reasons behind slavery. Stay tuned...
Synopsis
The Queen Panther is a fiction set in a fantasy world very similar to our world - a place where people live, and just like us, make the same mistakes.
The plot mainly takes place in a continent called the Kalongo, inhabited by a multitude of black tribes. Through the prism of three main heroes - Nyangui the woman warrior, Tarass the rich white pirate and Kodjo the hunter - it tells the story about the the uprising of several enslaved tribes who are being sold on the coast by the powerful and prosperous Kingdom of Vangabougou, ruled by King Baba Koawo and his cruel priest Imbumbulu, guardian of a secret order.
The series is a story about the fundamental issues of slavery, which was ultimately never a matter of color in its beginnings, but a phenomenon driven by a mercantilist spirit and the lure of profit.
The Queen Panther is the story about power, struggle and identity.
It’s a story about the fight for freedom.
Exploring the real reasons behind slavery...
"The series is far from a tribunal against anyone. It’s a reflection on the real issues of slavery which was ultimately not a question of color at its beginnings, but a dehumanization of man by man with the aim of getting the greatest benefit from it. And among these dehumanizing men, there were men of all colors, all driven by the same mercantilist spirit and the lure of gain."
- R.Y. TYN
A story based on the book by R.Y. TYN
The Lonley Keva:
The Queen Panther
The Keva is the King Tree in the tropical forest where the plot takes place. In the fiction, it is chosen by the Black Panther, Queen of the Animal Kingdom at this latitude, to establish her lair. The Queen will be overthrown by a more ambitious woman warrior, with a destiny written in advance.
The Keva is lonely, as the majestic tree finds itself alone on a plain, witnessing a violent story.
The story mainly takes place in a continent named Kalongo, inhabited by a multitude of black tribes. Through the prism of three main characters - Nyangui the woman warrior, Tarass the rich white pirate and Kodjo the hunter - it recounts the uprise of several enslaved tribes continuously sold on the coast by the powerful and prosperous Kingdom of Vangabougou then ruled by King Baba Koawo and his cruel priest Imbumbulu, guardian of a secret order.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
R.Y. TYN
R.Y. TYN likes to describe himself is a Scientist who fell in love with literature. He is a petroleum Engineer and a writer. He was born as Yacoub TRAORE NDAMA, on may 18th 1979, in Koula-Moutou, Gabon. His father was a successful businessman from Chad who settled down in Gabon in the late 50. His mother was a housewife dedicated to raising her kids. Born as the 8th out of 9 children, TYN grew up with African values, based upon respect for elderly and family love. He shared his childhood between the soccer field and school. At age of 10, he had broken his right hand, which forced him to spend the whole summer in a hospital bed. This is where started his love story with books.
He read his first book (“Things fall apart” by Chinua Achebe) at 11. He then went through several African writers like Sembene Ousmane, Camara Laye and so on. At 16, he discovered Maryse Conde from Guadeloupe (French West Indies) with her book Segou. After watching the movie and reading the book by Alex Haley (“Roots”), he decided to be a writer and started writing his father’s family story: His grandfather was born in the XIXth century as a prince in the falling Kingdom of Sikaso (south Mali) during the French colonization. There is so much to say about this man who refused to meet the European’s and who decided to cross Africa from West to East and go to Macca, as many Muslim from Western Africa coast did. He finally settled down during the return trip all the long way from Sudan and Chad, which his grandfather did by the way.
But the writing project stopped when his father (the narrator-memory resource) died and the manuscript never ended up as a book.
Meanwhile, TYN graduated from high school and went to France where he lived for 6 years and got a Master degree in Engineering science. During his last year as student, he wrote and published his first book (“Les aventures du Schountari”, published at Publibook in 2008).
He then started a career in oil and gas and shifted to the Middle East where he worked between Dubai and Oman for a US company. He resigned a few years later and started several projects in his country. He bought a farm not far from Libreville (capital of Gabon) and started agriculture.
Being closed to his people and bringing his experience back home was his main goal. The call of nature was so huge that he gets reconciled with his first vocation and get back to book writing.
Thanks to his career which led him to all continents, he was able to write tales from his native forest area, Arabic desert of Oman to snowy Northern fields of Alaska.
“The Lonely Keva - Book1: The Queen Panther” was published in May 2023 while several manuscript are waiting to be published (volume 2 to volume 10 of “Les aventures du Schountari”, volume 2 to volume 4 of “The Lonely Keva", volume 1 and volume 2 of “The Bastalyn twins”) and several others series. All these books are written in the same universe created by the author who called it The Varnon. It is a planet similar to earth with two moons, circling around a star similar to the sun at a distance allowing life.