Sir Seretse Khama, the first President of Botswana and heir apparent to the kingship of the Bangwato people, brought independence and great prosperity to his nation after colonial rule. But for six long years from 1950, Seretse had been forced into exile in England, banned from his own country. H...
A. W. Clark had suspected, Tshekedi had been very annoyed by Seretse’s separate speech of farewell to the Bangwato, after their joint statement. Shortly after his nephew’s departure, he told Baring that he had now shifted away from Seretse and was opposed to the idea of him ever being Kgosi.1 Six...
Her most recent books include The Children of London (2001) and Ladies of Influence: Women of the Elite in Interwar Britain (2000) and she has also edited several anthologies, of which The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women won the World Science Fiction and Fantasy Award for Best Anthology i...