Reclaiming the soil
Subtitle: a black girl's struggle to find her African self
By: Rosie Motene
Publisher: Porcupine Press
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Johannesburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9781928276425
Subjects: Actors; Biography; Blacks; Race identity; Adoptees; Interracial adoption
Description: "The Rosie Motene story is about a young girl born to the Bafokeng nation during the apartheid era in South Africa. At the time, Rosie's mother worked for a white Jewish family in Johannesburg who offered to raise the child as one of their own. This generous gesture by the family created many opportunities for Rosie but also a trail of sacrifices for her parents. As she grew, Rosie struggled to find her true identity. She had access to the best of everything but as a black girl she floundered without her own culture or language. This book describes Rosie's journey through her fog of alienation to the belated dawning of her self -discovery as an African." -- Page 4 of cover.