My Afternoon With Mma Ramotswe
I've never been to Botswana, but if I did the first person I'd look up would be Precious Ramotswe, the owner of the Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency. When I found her at the Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors office in Gabarone, I'd beckon to her, using the traditional Setswana greeting of "Ko Ko" and hope that she'd invite me in for some red Bush Tea.
I wonder what questions I might ask her. I wonder if she would be too busy to see me. Probably not, considering business is not all that "busy." I would enjoy meeting her fiance, Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni, and might ask him some questions about a vehicle.
I would most definitely tell her that the stories about her investigations and the problems she has solved have given me hours of levity. I would tell her that the books came highly recommended by my favorite literature professor from college. I would most certainly let her know that I cannot get enough of the books, and that I hope there are plenty more to come.
Mma Ramotswe will find it interesting to know that the books about her agency are the first really "modern" best sellers I have read in a long time. I would let her know that I wish things were as simple in America as they are in Botswana. I would let her know that I completely understand her pride in her country.
Lastly, before I departed to drink in the Kalahari, I would spend a goodly amount of time discussing our dearly departed fathers: mine, Mr. T.L. Daniel; and hers, Mr. Obed Ramotswe. She would surely say of my father, "He was a good father. And that is something you can be proud of. You can think about that when you get sad and you will feel better."
The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Tears of the Giraffe, Morality for Beautiful Girls, The Kalahari Typing School for Men, and The Full Cupboard of Life by Alexander McCall Smith
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