Twenty Chickens for a Saddle The Story of an African Childhood

by Scott, Robyn

• ISBN13: 9781594201592
• ISBN10: 1594201595
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-27
• Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The

Summary

Grandpa said that in Botswana going to funerals was practically a national pastime. Not actually knowing the deceased did not, moreover, prevent people attending a funeral.

Author Biography

Robyn Scott was homeschooled until she was fourteen, when she began boarding school in Zimbabwe. At university in Auckland, New Zealand, she earned a B.Sc. in bioinformatics. She was awarded a Gates Scholarship to Cambridge University, where she received a master's in bioscience enterprise. Scott currently lives in London, where in her spare time she is establishing an AIDS orphan charity with her mother. She is twenty-six years old.

Table of Contents

Grandpa's Visitors	p. 1
The Cowshed and the Witch Doctor	p. 15
Kissing Snakes	p. 31
Ngaka and Mmangaka	p. 49
Schools of Thought	p. 55
School	p. 75
Sunbeams and Chameleons	p. 85
Mum's Experiment	p. 97
Shocking Experiences	p. 109
Grandpa Ivor	p. 119
Whispers about Lions	p. 133
The Clinics	p. 145
Lessons	p. 163
Living on the Fringe	p. 177
Christmas	p. 203
The Whole Family's Half of an Island	p. 217
Prizes for the Gifted	p. 231
The Good Karma of Khama	p. 245
Fiddian Green	p. 255
Neighbors	p. 271
Good Neighbors	p. 287
School	p. 305
Lulu and Damien	p. 323
Mum	p. 339
Talking about Lions	p. 365
Elizabeth	p. 383
Dad	p. 399
Leaving Limpopo	p. 417
Epilogue	p. 439
Acknowledgments	p. 447
Glossaries	p. 450
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