HEAD, Bessie - Serowe, Village of the Rain Wind - (Excellent 1st Edition Hardcover in Wrapper)

Book and wrapper in great unmarked condition.   >>>    Serowe in the southern African nation of Botswana has been called Africa's most famous village because it is the home of one of Africa's most renown and honorable kings (chief) Khama III (the Great) (1837?-1923) of the Bamangwato people.  He was a reformer, a converted extremely devout Christian, and a man determined to protect his land and people from the colonialists.  Ian Khama the past president of Botswana is the great grandson of Khama III.  Serowe is the capital of the Bamangwato.  Brilliant Bessie Head was an exile from South Africa and made Serowe her home.  She is also one of Africa's most famous and respected writers.  Today Serowe is no longer a village, but a town.    -   This is Bessie's celebration of her adopted village.  It is a mixture of the history of the Bamangwato and their king Khama the Great, his successors, and interviews with various citizens of the village, some who are very old and others who are middle aged or in their 30s.  Batswana and even a few European and white South African inhabitants of the village were interviewed.  This book presents a picture of what the old history and customs of their community was like.    -   At the end of the book Head includes a brief history of Botswana and Southern Africa starting in the 1880s when the Western powers of Great Britain and Germany along with the Afrikaner (Boers) settlers started to attempt to carve up, settle, and exploit the land, working diligently to steal it from the native peoples.  >>> A few years ago I (Roza) had to do her Maru as an English setwork with my students.  After Shakespeare and some great poetry I didn't want to read anything by a, to me, unknown black author.  Eventually I tackled it reluctantly.  WOW ... I loved it and read up everything I could about her. 

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