"A Woman Is Her Hands" By Wame Molefhe Read By Gothataone Moeng (Botswana) by Library Of Africa and The African Diaspora published on 2021-04-20T12:25:50Z WAME MOLEFHE is a Motswana writer who lives in Gaborone, Botswana. Her short story collection, ‘Just Once,’ is taught in junior secondary schools in Botswana. Her other collection, ‘Go Tell the Sun,’ was published in 2011. Molefhe started writing seriously in 2008 and, since then, she has not only written short stories but for TV and radio too. She also writes non-fiction. Most of her stories are about everyday life and have a gentle, unassuming yet intimate and captivating feel to them. Set in Botswana, the stories trace the lives of characters whose paths cross and re-cross each others', some times in and through love, at other times through tragedy. And through them the author brings to bear a woman's perspective on the societal mores in which sexual abuse, homophobia and AIDS, among others, flourish and spread. The social content and views are never proclaimed as a loud agenda; instead, it forms a 'natural' backdrop to the lives of the characters, something that may raise a wry comment or thought in one character, while eliciting a mere shrug from another. Molefhe's voice is, to some extent, a world-weary voice, weary of all she has seen of society's failures, but never without the gentleness often absent and much needed in broken societies, and never without the hope and redemption that can be found in love and the imagination. GOTHATAONE MOENG is a fiction writer from Serowe, Botswana. She was a 2018-2020 Stegner Fellow in Fiction. Her writing has also received fellowships and support from Tin House, where she was a 2019 Summer Workshop scholar and from A Public Space, where she was a 2016 Emerging Writer Fellow. Her writing has appeared in American Short Fiction, One Story, A Public Space and the Oxford American, amongst others. Genre Storytelling