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NO 1 LADIES DETECTIVE AGENCY SERIES
In this book we are introduced to the people who will play such an important part in Mma Ramotswe's life, and in the series of novels about her. She loves her country and its people to an extreme, and is particularly enamoured of Botswana's first and only Prime Minister and first President, Sir Seretse Khama. For Mma Ramotswe is a good, generous and kind woman whose aim in life is to be of assistance to her fellow Batswana, and of value to Africa. And, of course, there is her own experience with the brilliant trumpeter, but ghastly man, Note Makoti.įrom this, Mma Ramotswe knows there are many people who are helpless in their distress, and who need help to resolve their problems. Being both highly intelligent and observant she knows that while her own upbringing may have been close to ideal, that of many others is far from that. Yet at the same time she recognises the weaknesses of some Batswana traditions, especially such things as black magic and violence towards women and children. Mma Ramotswe is a "traditionally" built (very large) woman, with strongly traditional beliefs. Mma Ramotswe's intention to establish a detective agency appears to surprise him, but perhaps fortunately for his daughter he dies before he can reveal his thoughts. Her father, Obed, tells her that it will be okay with some of his dying breaths. The latter enables her to sell some of her wonderful father's fantastic and precious cattle to establish a business.
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The loss of her baby and the loss of her father are outlined. Mma Precious Ramotswe is introduced and some of her history and upbringing is revealed.