When Rain Clouds Gather And Maru Av Bessie Head

In the heart of rural Botswana, the poverty stricken village of Golema Mmidi is a haven to exiles from far and wide. A South African political refugee and an Englishman join forces to revolutionise the villagers' traditional farming methods, but...

Margaret Cadmore, an orphaned Masarwa girl, comes to Dilepe to teach, only to discover that in this remote Botswana village her people are treated as outcasts. '... change the world on the basis of love of mankind.' Bessie Head

Expanded and updated collection of short stories using Head's 'Tales of Tenderness and Power' as a basis.

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 and out of...