Introduction to Collins Edition
‘The Honey Bird is Mr Cloete’s fourth collection of stories, and like its predecessors their rich and wonderful diversity in no way detracts from the unity given them by their African setting. For Africa is still a place of enormous contrasts.
Where skyscrapers are built and the veneer of modernity shines, not far, in the bush, lions still kill cattle and people, witchcraft and ritual murder are still realities, and ancient rites are now practiced by men dressed in business suits.’
