The Botswanan childhood of Monei Ntuka is shaped by stories from her mother, father, and grandmother as well as from the colonizers and the Christian church in this novel about the tensions between modernization and tradition in postcolonial Africa.
Unity Dow is the first woman to be appointed high court judge in Botswana. She is the recipient of the 2003 William J. Brennan, Jr., Human Rights Award from Rutgers Law School. She is the author of Far and Beyon' and The Screaming of the Innocent.
