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Schooling Story: Author | Albertina | Rosalina | Valentina


Lives of Girls (Albertina Tiwana)
Schooling Story

 


27 June 1995, Facazisse

H: What else did you do when you were a girl, besides fighting?
A: Well, you pound corn, you grind corn, you cook, you go to your fields. Mmm.
H: Did you enjoy this work?
A: Cooking? Ah, what do we know? We might suffer at our vukatini if we don't know how to cook. If we don't know how to cultivate. They teach us to cook, they teach us to cultivate. Me, I had my own field! There with my mother. . . . [A explains size of this field, in relation to landmarks around us] We found peanuts, we found corn, we found maxalana [sorghum]! Even, xikombe [millet], we found it.

 

Schooling Story: Author | Albertina | Rosalina | Valentina



 

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