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Life is good for Mma Ramotswe as she sets out with her usual resolve to solve people’s problems, heal their misfortunes, and untangle the mysteries that make life interesting. And life is never dull on Tlokweng Road. A new and rather too brusque advice columnist is appearing in the local paper. Then, a cobra is found in the offices of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency. Recently, the Mokolodi Game Preserve manager feels an infectious fear spreading among his workers, and a local doctor may be falsifying blood pressure readings. To further complicate matters, Grace Makutsi may have scared off her own fiancé. Mma Ramotswe, however, is always up to the challenge. And Blue Shoes and Happiness will not fail to entertain Alexander McCall Smith’s oldest fans and newest converts with its great wit, charm, and great good will.User friendly.
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Having enjoyed all of the series, it is high time I wrote a review on them. These delightful books take place in one of Africa's smallest and most prosperous countries, Botswana, which it has virtually launched onto the world stage. Using an amusing and endearing storyline, and through the lives and reflections of his characters, the author attempts to convey their thoughts and strongly entrenched cultural roots, their values, their love of their country and of Mother Africa.. Arguably, this non-African writer has done more to advance an understanding of Africa than any other local author has since Chinoa Achebe.
Sadly, the rest of the African continent does not fare as well as Botswana, which is very small, relatively wealthy, and has a tiny homogenous population, AND uncorrupt rulers. The rest of the continent languishes under endemic poverty, bad government, environmental degradation, warfare, HIV and other dieseases decimating their population, illiteracy, and apparently little hope for the future. Hopefully another writer will muster up the courage to tackle the far more daunting complexities of Africa in a witty endearing work that will appeal to a western as well as African audience, while maintaining the same respect and sympathy, never judgemental or belittling, that McCall Smith has done for Botswana.
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