Author: Unity Dow
Publisher: Spinifex Pre
Keywords: innocent, screaming
Number of Pages: 215
Published: 2002-03-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1876756209
ISBN-13: 9781876756208

When a twelve-year-old girl goes missing near her village, the local police tell her mother and the villagers that she has been taken by a wild animal. Five years later, a young government employee finds a box containing evidence of human involvement in the affair.

Author: Unity Dow
Publisher: Spinifex Press
Keywords: heavens
Number of Pages: 191
Published: 2008-04-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1876756489
ISBN-13: 9781876756482

This legal thriller offers an insider’s perspective on the triumphs and failures of the law. After taking up the case of an assaulted teenager, an up-and-coming lawyer must face manipulative opponents and an unreliable judge to fight for what she believes is right. An uncompromising exposé on the ways in which the law can sometimes fail, this novel acts as a homage to the sights and sounds of everyday life in Botswana.

Author: Unity Dow
Publisher: Aunt Lute Books
Keywords: beyon
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2002-04-01
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 1879960648
ISBN-13: 9781879960640

This novel tells the story of a Botswanian family’s struggle to cope with the devastatation of HIV and poverty. While Mara, mother of four, turns to traditional magic to cure the disease destroying her family, her children increasingly reject such beliefs, choosing instead to fight the powerlessness and oppression that have made the family so vulnerable to HIV.

Author: Unity Dow
Publisher: Spinifex Press
Keywords: truths, juggling
Number of Pages: 173
Published: 2003-05-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1876756381
ISBN-13: 9781876756383

The Botswanan childhood of Monei Ntuka is shaped by stories from her mother, father, and grandmother as well as from the colonizers and the Christian church in this novel about the tensions between modernization and tradition in postcolonial Africa.

Author: Unity Dow
Publisher: Spinifex Press
Keywords: beyon
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2001-06-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1876756071
ISBN-13: 9781876756079

For Mara, mother of four, sole provider, life has never been easy. In a community that relies upon traditional magic to cure AIDS, and blames bad luck upon a bewitching curse, women carry a heavy burden as the world changes around them. But in modern Botswana, the tensions are growing as more and more young people adopt white ways and challenge the heavily divided structure of African society. For Mara, it is her children’s dismissal of all the ancient magicks that have held families together for generations, for her son Stan it is the opportunities represented by his white teacher

Authors:Unity Dow, Max Essex,
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: funerals, saturday
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2010-05-03
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0674050770
ISBN-13: 9780674050778

In the year 2000 the World Health Organization estimated that 85 percent of fifteen-year-olds in Botswana would eventually die of AIDS. In Saturday Is for Funerals we learn why that won’t happen. Unity Dow and Max Essex tell the true story of lives ravaged by AIDS—of orphans, bereaved parents, and widows; of families who devote most Saturdays to the burial of relatives and friends. We witness the actions of community leaders, medical professionals, research scientists, and educators of all types to see how an unprecedented epidemic of death and destruction is being stopped in its