A Mourner of Swine, although centered within an African environment, sends its message across the imaginary, ethnic and cultural dimensions that has deterred our focus away from the expanding realities of our diminishing global village. A village that reminds us of just how small our planet really is. For untold centuries, unimaginable horrors have occupied the voids created by human indifference and will once again, to our dread, remind us in no uncertain terms that what is a threat to one man, is a threat to all men.