African Village
Channel 4 Books (Publisher)
Published on 7. September 2001
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-0-7522-1990-5 (ISBN)
Description
In "African Village", a 3 x 60 minute primetime Channel 4 series, the Nestor family spends ten weeks living and working as part of a clan homestead in Swaziland. The father of the family, Rob, will not only be required to join other clan members as a migrant worker to support the family, he will also be initiated as a warrior. As a trained nurse, his wife Lyn, will be expected to get involved with the local clinic as well as establish a chicken business. Their children Daniel, aged 13, Chloe, aged 8, and Callum aged 4, will go the local school, a 9-kilometre walk away. The Nestors will be expected to follow the customs of the homestead, giving plenty of potential for misunderstandings, mistakes and even conflict. Initially they will have to be subserviant to the other clan members as they learn to cook and farm using the traditional methods used by the Shongwe clan. The book is not only an account of the Nestor's time on the homestead, from both their own and their hosts' point of view, it is also a book about life as lived by 440 million people in rural Africa, with Swaziland - a country proud to have retained its identity and way of life.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pan Macmillan
Illustrations
120 colour illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 189 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
790 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7522-1990-5 (9780752219905)
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Person
Margo Russell is a sociologist who spent twenty years working at the University of Swaziland. She is the consultant to the series, and will be in Swaziland throughout the filming, to provide support, advice and information to the Nestor family.