Title: Singing Away the Hunger: The Autobiography of an African Woman
Authors: Mpho M'Atsepo Nthunya & K. Limakatso Kendal
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Year: 1996/1997
Country: Lesotho
187 pages
A volume of short autobiographical stories by a Basotho woman, aided by a US woman (who explains her involvement and her concerns about colonial/exploitative practices). These stories, loosely but not entirely chronologically presented, detail a complex, difficult life in a country changing over to self-rule. If I were training medical volunteers for Lesotho, I'd have them read this as a way to understand how people might be making health care, education, and economic decisions on the basis of beliefs and practical realities very different from those of the professionals.
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