![]() ![]() And she does this in her quiet and unassuming way so that her loneliness even while basking in the friendship offered by Dikeledi, the daughter of the Chief of Dilepe, only adds to the mystery surrounding her being. Her novels, including When Rain Clouds Gather, Maru, and A Question of Power, as. The racial prejudice is very palpable and Margret’s discovery that her own Masarwa people in this remote Botswana village are treated as outcasts only sets her more determined to stand up proudly and affirm her heritage. It was in Botswana that Head found her voice, and the inspiration for her work. And that is where she becomes the subject of much interest, intrigue, hatred plots and counter plots to run her out-of-town because the ‘authorities’ can just not stand their children being taught by a lowly slave. She rises above intense racial discrimination to become a teacher in Dilepe. Two best friends, more like blood brothers, Maru and Moleka become fast and sworn enemies over the love of one woman, Margaret Cadmore, a Masarwa who has come to the village of Dilepe to take up a teaching position.īorn by the roadside (of all places, perhaps to reinforce her insignificance as person of the Masarwa tribe) Margaret is adopted by a white wife of a missionary, Margaret Cadmore, whose name young Margaret bears. ![]()
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