A girl called Problem

Description:

In 1967 Tanzania, when President Nyerere urges his people to work together as one extended family, the people of Lawanima move to a new village which, to some, seems cursed, but where thirteen-year-old Shida, a healer, and her female cousins are allowed to attend school. Includes glossary and author's note.

subjects: Blessing and cursing,  Healers,  Juvenile fiction,  Villages,  Fiction,  Household Moving,  Mothers and daughters,  Sukuma (African people),  Farm life,  History,  Children's fiction,  Villages, fiction,  Moving, household, fiction,  Mothers and daughters, fiction,  Farm life, fiction,  Tanzania, fiction

Places: Tanzania

Times: 1964-