Sibusiso Banda
Kalahari Rain Song is an unusual but yet wonderfully moving book that brings together the voices of two South African women, who are from different backgrounds but they are connected in spirit, to tell an intriguing story about the culture, spirituality and survival challenges of the Northern Cape Khomani Bushman community in the Kalahari.
Elana Bregin and Belinda Kruiper co-authored Kalahari Rain Song just after they met in October 2001 at Vetkat Kruiper’s (Belinda’s husband) art exhibition in Westville, Durban, at the Bergtheil museum. The book is set in South Africa in the post apartheid times.
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Thursday, 17 November 2011
Book review: Bessie Head's A Question of Power
Sibusiso Banda
Genre: Fiction
Publishers: Heinemann African Writers Series
Pages: 206
Year of Publication: 1974
Country: South Africa/Botswana
A Question of Power is an African Writers Series novel that waswritten by Bessie Head in 1974. The novel tells a story of a woman called Elizabeth, who moved with her son, Small boy, from South Africa, where she was hugely discriminated to exile Botswana.She worked as teacher in local village called Motabeng.
Due to societal isolation and her racial and ethnic differences from the local people (of whom many ignore her),she felt alienated and as a result struggled to emerge from the oppressive social situation of whichof she was running from in South Africa, she now foundherself in. Nightmares and hallucinations startedtormenting her. She later moved again to the rural Botswana, where she was involved in a cooperative farming venture which focused on developing the economics of the locals.Instead of peace of mind, she finds the opposite of ever lasting peace.
Genre: Fiction
Publishers: Heinemann African Writers Series
Pages: 206
Year of Publication: 1974
Country: South Africa/Botswana
A Question of Power is an African Writers Series novel that waswritten by Bessie Head in 1974. The novel tells a story of a woman called Elizabeth, who moved with her son, Small boy, from South Africa, where she was hugely discriminated to exile Botswana.She worked as teacher in local village called Motabeng.
Due to societal isolation and her racial and ethnic differences from the local people (of whom many ignore her),she felt alienated and as a result struggled to emerge from the oppressive social situation of whichof she was running from in South Africa, she now foundherself in. Nightmares and hallucinations startedtormenting her. She later moved again to the rural Botswana, where she was involved in a cooperative farming venture which focused on developing the economics of the locals.Instead of peace of mind, she finds the opposite of ever lasting peace.
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