H. Rider Haggard 
Black Heart and White Heart and other stories 

Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and the creator of the Lost World literary genre. His stories, situated at the lighter end of the scale of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential. He was also involved in agricultural reform and improvement in the British Empire. "Black Heart and White Heart", is a story of the courtship, trials and final union of a pair of Zulu lovers in the time of King Cetywayo.(Excerpt from Wikipedia)