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Growing Up in Botswana

Monday, April 14, 2008

When Robyn Scott was 7, her peripatetic parents moved the family to a game farm in Botswana, close to the border of South Africa. She writes about her unusual childhood and her first-hand exposure to the apartheid mindset in a new book, Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood.

Event: Robyn Scott will be speaking and signing books
Monday, April 14 at 7 pm
Tribeca Barnes & Noble
97 Warren Street (at Greenwich Street)


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  • [1] gwen cornfield from West Vancouver, BC, Canada August 08, 2008 - 04:10PM

    Robyn DOES have a South AFrican accent!

    Everyone thinks the strong, Afrikaaner, accent is the typical accent. It is amongst those that have Afrikaans as their home language. Other of us often have accents like Robyn - whose parents were English speaking.

    I would have guessed she was South African without hesitation.

    Gwen
  • [2] gwen cornfield from West Vancouver, BC, Canada August 08, 2008 - 04:11PM

    I loved the book - thanks Robyn.

    Gwen

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