![]() ![]() The book is very short only 80 pages, but it took me a long time to read. I was super excited, the title was intriguing. In any case, I got hold of this book by means I am not going to disclose here. For instance, Francophone Africa does not know much about Anglophone Africa and vice versa. The continent is huge and unfortunately, it is divided along language borders. ![]() I am from West Africa and I only know two things about southern Africa: Nelson Mandela and Lady Blacksmith Mamboza – Just kidding, okay barely. ![]() She is from South-Africa which means I don’t know much about her. She was born while her mother was in a psychiatric hospital. Bessie Head was born in South-Africa to a white mother and a black father. Back in 2013, the blog Kinna Reads was doing a Bessie Head week to honor her 76th birthday. In the love story and intrigue that follow, the author’s exploration of racism draws upon her own experiences of growing up in South Africa.īessie Head’s name sounded familiar when I first picked this book. An orphaned Masarwa girl comes to Dilepe to teach, only to discover that in this remote Botswana village her people are treated as outcasts. ![]()
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