The central character is tourist guide Fadma, or “man and a half” – as she is known and appreciated by all in Marrakech Jemaa el Fna. She has raised her two sons alone after the death of her husband 25 years before. She takes great pride in the success of her elder son Ahmed, a […]
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Krotoa, a feisty, bright, young 11 year old girl is removed from her close-knit Khoi tribe to serve Jan van Riebeeck, her uncle’s trading partner. She is brought into the first Fort established by the Dutch East India Company in 1652. There she grows into a visionary young woman who assimilates the Dutch language and […]
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