In the land of the pyramid sun, a single step of the Badimu is a thousand Muntu lifetimes.
This is the land of Ndawo, home to the first Muntu. A thousand years after the great war between the Badimu — a war that brought darkness to the land and birthed a new kind of Muntu, one that wants, owns, and is never sated — Ndawo remains divided. Recently, numerous young girls have gone missing from their villages, a trail of carnage left in their wake.
In the empire of Monomotapa, Queen Nyameka commands the greatest warriors in all of Ndawo, the Imbokodo. Here, a nameless woman will fight to secure her place among the Imbokodo — to stand for the Queen, for the Empire, and for the freedom of all Muntu.
This tale adds to the greatly needed representation of Black heroes in the worlds of comics and fantasy: Afrofuturism at its finest, where myth, technology, and ancestral power collide. The land remembers; the warriors answer. The question is whether one woman’s courage can unmake the hunger that has taken root, and whether a united people can reclaim the sunlit promise of Ndawo.
