Shamwari Dreams The beam played the shadows as the two lionesses moved through the grass, stopping to listen, then moving again. My emotions flew unchecked. I was experiencing .... [more information]
The Owl House Before the wind-pump was invented in America in the mid-nineteenth century, the thirsty, southern heartland of South Africa's Karoo was home only to the springbok and the tortoise. Migratory San... [more information]
The Xhosa Cattle Killing One morning in 1856, a fifteen year old Xhosa girl named Nongqawuse went with another girl to scare birds from her uncle's crops in the fields by the sea at the Gxarha river mouth in the... [more information]