This Thing Called The Future (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
Even though Baba lives in Durban, just an hour away, we only see him some few times a year. It’s too expensive to travel back and forth all the time. So instead, we try to talk on the phone often. “Sawubona, Baba!” Zi screams into the phone. She garbles a story about why mosquitoes scream in people’s ears. I think it’s from a book her teacher read to the class. She’s quiet while Baba talks on the other end. “Khosi!” he says when she hands the phone to me. “Your mama told me how fast you’re growing up, so I thought I must call to find out just how grown up my little girl has become.” So Mama must have told him I’ve become an intombi now. “She’s worried because I’m a beautiful young woman,” I joke. “She gets sick just thinking about it.” “Hawu!” he chuckles. “Does she think you’re going to be wild, like she was? Does she think you’re going to start running around all over the place?” “Was Mama wild when she was my age?” “Sho, was she ever!
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