num_pages: 327
description: Award-winning journalist Sylvia Vollenhoven tells the story of her life and how it's been turned upside down by an //Kabbo, a Bushman storyteller and revolutionary. She writes of being "too black" for her coloured school mates, working as one of the early female journalists in the misogynistic '70s and of the constant struggle to find an identity that fits. Finally, she unearths a history that speaks to first in the language of a long, nameless illness without conventional cure, and then in the Calling of her Ancestors.
language: English
title: The Keeper of the Kumm: Ancestral longing and belonging of a Boesmankind
publisher: Tafelberg