THE SUBTLE POWER OF FEMININITY
The transition from girlhood to womanhood is a personal passage, Khumoetsile Seamogano traces the curves of divine feminine energy.
words: Khumoetsile Seamogano
I often think about the women before me. Guardians of the sacred bond between man and the great mother earth. Herbalists whose whispers will plants to heal illnesses, farmers licked by the raw Kalahari sun as they till and plough the land so that their children can eat well – their gif ts to their daughters are scattered in the songs of praise that they sing at midnight. To receive them, we too must sing their songs and anchor our roots deep into the heart of the earth. This is a coming-of-age story recalling the summer of 2013 in Shakwe, with my Gogo (father’s mother).