Blog Number 5

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In Botswana, there is an obvious difference in that "witch doctors" terrorize the land. At Precious' detective agency, she receives a letter from a poor man whose son has disappeared. He does not have the money to pay her for a full investigation, however, he asks if she can ask around if anyone has seen his beloved son. She consults with her friend about the case, and he replies that the boy will never be found, and she should know that. That a witch doctor had taken him.
"Mr J.L.B Matekoni smiled. "Come on, now, Mma Ramotswe. You know as well as I do what goes on. We don't like to talk about it do we? It's the thing we Africans are most ashamed of. We know it happens but we pretend it doesn't. We know all right what happens to children who go missing. We know (90)."

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"Then, just past the Mochudi turnoff, the sun came up, rising over the wide plains that stretched away torwards the corse of the Limpopo. Suddenly it was there, smiling effortlessly free of the horizon to dispel the last wisps of morning mist (122)."

This is a gorgeous example of the imagry used in this novel. Alexander McCall Smith is a tremendously talented writer, and he definately deserves all the praise he gets for writing this series. This specific quote paints a beautiful picture of the lazy African weather, and makes me think of the Lion King in the very beginning when the Circle of Life begins to play and Simba is being presented to the worls as a new born lion cub.