Dimo and Chewelo, by Judah Seomeng Social issues

Dimo and Chewelo, by Judah Seomeng Social issuesAnother story adapted from the Setswana folktale tradition, about the giant people, the Dimos, who hunted all over Botswana, terrorising living creatures including human beings and eating children. In this story, a Dimo attempts to kidnap the granddaughter of an old woman, Mama Chewelo, but finds himself in a pickle. Author Judah Seomeng ISBN 9789991255521 Format Paperback Pages 24p.

author of The Expats and The Accident

“The Protein Crunch” provides an excellent summary of all those systemic linkages regarding food

Writing with his characteristic elegance

It also journeys back in time to find the forgotten history of "coloured" people

It is a story about the lengths to which human beings will go in pursuit of freedom and the human price of a national revolution

loses her voice after losing her mother and boyfriend at the same time

against German colonialism

a schoolgirl maths prodigy is haunted by the loss of her mother

There was something magical about the way Daniels recollected his memories from his childhood in those first three stories

profits from the multibillion-dollar chocolate industry fuel bloody civil war and widespread corruption

The book traces their varying journeys into MK

This collection showcases Mandela's opening gambit as a politician of global significance and as such it deserves to be read to understand just what it was that drove and inspired the young freedom fighter