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A Nest of Voodoo Dolls

A Nest of Voodoo Dolls
  • Author(s): Betty Knight
  • Location(s): Gaborone, Botswana
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2013

Botswana Police Sergeant Duski Lôcha is the daughter of a Zionist preacher whose sermons berate witch doctors and their ungodly practises. Desperate to find a man she could call her own in a culture where infidelity is the norm...

A Question of Power

A Question of Power
  • Author(s): Bessie Head
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It is never clear to Elizabeth whether the mission principal’s cruel revelations of her origins is at the bottom of her mental breakdown, but in the dark loneliness of the Botswanan night, the frightened South African refugee slips in...

A Song of Comfortable Chairs

A Song of Comfortable Chairs
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Grace Makutsi’s husband, Phuti Radiphuti, is in a bind. An international firm is attempting to undercut his prices in the office furniture market. Phuti has always been concerned with quality and comfort, but this firm seems interested only in...

Africa Lite? : Boomers in Botswana

Africa Lite? : Boomers in Botswana
  • Author(s): Christopher M. Doran
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2008

The author says DO NOT READ THIS BOOK……. unless you want to spend the day laughing out loud while being inspired by Africa and the Peace Corps In 2008, Dr. Doran and his wife made the extraordinary decision to...

Black Mulberries

Black Mulberries
  • Author(s): Caitlin Davies
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Set against the lush, wild landscape of Botswana, BLACK MULBERRIES is the unforgettable tale of two feuding families whose destinies are intertwined. Four women take turns to tell their story. NANTHEWA – the matriarch who strives to raise her...

Botswana From The Outside In

Botswana From The Outside In
  • Author(s): Robert Flanagan
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It took just three weeks to turn our lives inside out, heading into unknown territory and unexperienced temperatures. And why drag our family 6000 miles to Africa? Well, it was warm, hardly ever rained and the only other choice...

Botswana Time

Botswana Time
  • Author(s): Will Randall
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Early 2000s

Will Randall travels with a purpose, as well as an outrageous sense of fortune. In INDIAN SUMMER he found himself, by chance, having the extraordinary experience of helping slum schoolchildren put on a play to help save their school....

Cry of the Kalahari

Cry of the Kalahari
  • Author(s): Mark Owens, Delia Owens
  • Location(s): Kalahari, Botswana
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1970s

Carrying little more than a change of clothes and a pair of binoculars, two young Americans, Mark and Delia Owens, caught a plane to Africa, bought a thirdhand Land Rover, and drove deep into the Kalahari Desert. There they...

Eleven Miles

Eleven Miles
  • Author(s): Lance Greenfield
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

How far would you have walked to gain your high school education? From an early age, the greatest passion in Boitumelo Tumelo’s life is learning. Boi, as she is known to her friends and family, just loves going to...

Facets of Death

Facets of Death
  • Author(s): Michael Stanley
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A Detective Kubu Investigation prequel Detective Kubu’s first case may also be his last… Recruited straight from university to Botswana’s CID, David ‘Kubu’ Bengu has raised his colleagues’ suspicions with his meteoric rise within the department, and he has...

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