Word: botswana
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...While in Botswana, she also met Heinz Klug, an exiled South African journalist helping to set up the Solidarity News Service, an independent news agency, to cover South Africa...
Upon completing her master’s at Berkeley, Seidman left for Botswana to write a development studies textbook. Twenty years later, it is still “on some English teacher’s list of great resources on Southern Africa,” she says...
...Seidman returned to Berkeley in 1984 to pursue a Ph.D. in sociology. She and her husband commuted half-way across the world to see one another until the Botswana Security Police told Klug in 1985 that, “the South African government had targeted him, and they were going to kill him,” Seidman says...
...Finch, our hero, is an American who teaches at a private school in Botswana. At 48 he is a contented man, even a little self-satisfied, but who could blame him? He's a literary scholar, in a modest way, and ardently married to Iris, who is beautiful, sexy, 10 years younger--and bored out of her mind in Botswana. Her unhappiness eats away at Ray's sense of self-worth, as does her increasingly close epistolary friendship with Ray's gay, witty younger brother Rex, from whom he is estranged. This could all be the stuff of a fairly...
That's right: Ray works for the CIA gathering information about local political operatives, in particular a brilliant, charismatic local doctor. (Poor, hot and ravaged by AIDS, Rush's Botswana practically vibrates with political instability.) This isn't just a whim on the author's part: Mortals comes with the whole special-ops toy chest, including secret signals, micro-recorders, coded transmissions and even a violent and extended mission into the bush. This could have the effect of cleaving the novel into two incompatible halves--a portrait of a marriage and a political thriller--but Rush merges the two successfully...