Come September, every year, Rre Molemi reversed into the past to have a conversation with Botswana.
The process was the same every year. First he retrieved his black A4hardcover from the topmost shelf of his stack of notebooks and read all the notes he had made in the last 12 months: had it rained? words he had read or heard, dialogue from films he had watched, a near accident on a drive, a shopping list, a change in the price of chicken wings, a cartoon that had tickled him, lyrics, notes from a piece of music…
Days of feverish writing followed. He wrote out the entire essay out by hand...
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