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Acknowledgments
Thank you, God, for the gift of life. I am deeply grateful to my four xiluvas (flowers) for the faith and long suffering during this journey:my wife and best friend, Bafelile (Tebo) Cossa; my daughter and second best friend, Khanimambo Mpho Cossa; my sister and my inspiration, mana Laura Saveca-Parruque; and my angel, mamã Angélica Maguiguane —Ke a le rata haholo (I love you very much)! I am grateful to Dr. Erwin H. Epstein for believing in me. I am grateful to the people whose work I have used in this book, for we are all interconnected by forces that are beyond ourfathoming—motho ke motho ka batho.*
*In the author’s view, there is no adequate translation for this phrase, as it is a contextbound cultural motto. Roughly translated, this means “a person is a person because of others.”