The Bank of Botswana is full of money, from our diamonds. We have no political prisoners, and never have had any. There's no other country in Africa that can hold its head up as we can. "I LOVE out country, and I am proud to be a Motswana. If you believed in the old Setswana morality, you couldn't turn a relative away, and there was a lot to be said for that." - pp 11-12Ī large part of this book is making Botswana seem like a nice place to live. She knew of one man, a sergeant of police, who was supporting an uncle, two aunts, and a second cousin. "She reflected on how the African tradition of support for relatives could cripple people. Mma Ramotswe, the detective, doesn't distinguish herself by having superhuman stamina or some such - in many respects she's just down-to-earth, full of common sense, partially acquired by having made personal & common stupid misakes in her own life. Then, the next day, I could remember every figure exactly and write them all down if I needed to." - p 9 Again, it was very simple for me I could look at a whole sheet of figures and understand it immediately.
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""I did very well in my exams and at the end of the day I went off to Gaborone and learned how to be a bookkeeper. The detective is helped by being a math mnemonist. It was a pleasure to see how this wisdom played out. Intuition & intelligence are the 2 prime ingredients. Notice that no guns are listed & no booze. No inventory would include those, of course." - p 3 What else does a detective agency really need? Detective agencies rely on human intuition and intelligence. And three mugs-one for herself, one for her secretary, and one for the client.
Then there was a teapot, in which Mma Ramotswe-the only lady detective in Botswana-brewed redbush tea. These were its assets: a tiny white van, two desks, a telephone, and an old typewriter. "Mma Ramotswe had a detective agency in Africa, at the foot of Kgale Hill. & that got me interested, maybe I was expecting some light humor - as it turned out it was ripe w/ good human observation & even though it was a detective novel it wasn't full of what I'm used to: viz: brutality. While there, he co-wrote The Criminal Law of Botswana (1992)." - ] "He returned to southern Africa in 1981 to help co-found the law school and teach law at the University of Botswana. McCall Smith was educated at the Christian Brothers College in Bulawayo before moving to Scotland at age 17 to study law at the University of Edinburgh, where he earned his LLB and PhD degrees." His father worked as a public prosecutor in Bulawayo. ["Alexander McCall Smith was born in Bulawayo in 1948 to parents of British origin (his grandfather was born in Nairn, Scotland) in the British colony of Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe), the youngest of four children. I didn't know what to expect, I probably saw that the author was African Yet-another writer I'd never heard of, this turned out to be subtle & rewarding. 1 Ladies' Detective Agencyīy tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - November 2-4, 2020
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