The keeper of the Kumm

Sylvia Vollenhoven brings together the story of her own life and the story of a long-ago ancestor – //Kabbo, a respected Khoisan storyteller. Too much of South Africa’s history has been lost and suppressed, leaving a void for many South Africans. Sylvia’s attempts to reconcile her present with the haunting of the past is a powerful story.
Too much of South Africa's history has been lost and suppressed, leaving a void for many South Africans. Sylvia Vollenhoven brings together her life and that of a long-ago ancestor, /Kabbo, a respected Khoisan storyteller. She writes of her experience as being “too black” for her coloured schoolmates, working as one of the early female journalists in the misogynistic environment of the '70s, and of the constant impact on her life of her background - including her ancestors.

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