Hi everybody! I am reading a book called the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, actually I just finished the book! This book is about a woman named Mma (Ms.) Ramotswe, her full name is Precious Ramotswe. She was born in Botswana, in a small village known as Mochudi. Her Father died and he had lots of cattle, which Mma Ramotswe sold, and she got a lot of money for them. Enough to start a business, which was what her father wanted her to do. She bought a building and hired a secretary, she bought some furniture and renovated the house a bit (it was old and unwanted by the previous owners). The business she decided to start was a detective agency, which she thought might not be the most successful business but she enjoyed the job. She had a lot of customers with various cases I will explain to you the two most serious ones:
#1 Mma Ramotswe is good friends with a man named Mr. JLB Matekoni, he owns a car repair shop and is very successful in this business. He is asked to fix a car that was crashed, the owner was a very rich man and well known businessman, and while he is taking out all the belongings so that they won't be lost when he cleans and fixes the car; he comes upon a little sack with bones in it. This is from a witch doctor, someone who works with medicine made from humans and kills or hurts these humans himself/herself. Mma Ramotswe wasn't asked to take on the case, she was actually asked to stay out of it so that no one would get in trouble with the well known businessman, but there was a recent disappearance of a young boy who was scouting around for rocks and he was driven away. Mma Ramotswe has a horrible sinking suspicion that these bones were the boy's bones. She wants to have this doctor arrested and avenge the boy and his parents. She sets up a meeting with this businessman and acts like she wants to know this witch doctor so she could use his services. He gives her the address and she visits the place but the witch doctor's not there, only his wife. Mma Ramotswe tricks her into telling her where the boy's body is, but the woman says that he is alive and working for them at the cattle post. He never left because there are cruel people watching him and they would catch him and torture him if he ran away. Mma Ramostwe drives out to the post and takes the boy who his many cuts and scars from being whipped, she takes him home and gets the witch doctor and his wife arrested.
#2 This case is about a doctor in a hospital. Another good friend is a doctor there and helped her father when he was sick and in old age; so she does his case for free. He has hired a new doctor and he sometimes is very smart and good at his job then other times he is horrible and clueless. Her friend is worried that he is taking or handling drugs in some way, so Mma Ramotswe follows hims and he goes across the border to South Africa. She follows him to his house and she sees that there are to of him. She later finds out that one of them is a renowned doctor and has earned his degree, the other is just hopeless in medicine. That is why there are different amounts of knowledge, the one who was clueless didn't have a job so they have a fraud where one of them works at one hospital then one works at the other. They were fired. :)
A word I didn't know was Mma (pronounced 'ma'), which is possibly an abbreviation for Madam, or it just means Ms. Another one would be Rra (pronouced 'rar') , which is Mr.
A sentence in which Mma was used is "Mma Ramotswe had a detective agency in Africa, at the foot of Kgale hill." (the first sentence of the book, actually)
I chose this book because my godmother had sent it to me for Christmas and I really enjoyed the first chapter and it interested my a lot, so why not read something that you enjoy!
KF
#1 Mma Ramotswe is good friends with a man named Mr. JLB Matekoni, he owns a car repair shop and is very successful in this business. He is asked to fix a car that was crashed, the owner was a very rich man and well known businessman, and while he is taking out all the belongings so that they won't be lost when he cleans and fixes the car; he comes upon a little sack with bones in it. This is from a witch doctor, someone who works with medicine made from humans and kills or hurts these humans himself/herself. Mma Ramotswe wasn't asked to take on the case, she was actually asked to stay out of it so that no one would get in trouble with the well known businessman, but there was a recent disappearance of a young boy who was scouting around for rocks and he was driven away. Mma Ramotswe has a horrible sinking suspicion that these bones were the boy's bones. She wants to have this doctor arrested and avenge the boy and his parents. She sets up a meeting with this businessman and acts like she wants to know this witch doctor so she could use his services. He gives her the address and she visits the place but the witch doctor's not there, only his wife. Mma Ramotswe tricks her into telling her where the boy's body is, but the woman says that he is alive and working for them at the cattle post. He never left because there are cruel people watching him and they would catch him and torture him if he ran away. Mma Ramostwe drives out to the post and takes the boy who his many cuts and scars from being whipped, she takes him home and gets the witch doctor and his wife arrested.
#2 This case is about a doctor in a hospital. Another good friend is a doctor there and helped her father when he was sick and in old age; so she does his case for free. He has hired a new doctor and he sometimes is very smart and good at his job then other times he is horrible and clueless. Her friend is worried that he is taking or handling drugs in some way, so Mma Ramotswe follows hims and he goes across the border to South Africa. She follows him to his house and she sees that there are to of him. She later finds out that one of them is a renowned doctor and has earned his degree, the other is just hopeless in medicine. That is why there are different amounts of knowledge, the one who was clueless didn't have a job so they have a fraud where one of them works at one hospital then one works at the other. They were fired. :)
A word I didn't know was Mma (pronounced 'ma'), which is possibly an abbreviation for Madam, or it just means Ms. Another one would be Rra (pronouced 'rar') , which is Mr.
A sentence in which Mma was used is "Mma Ramotswe had a detective agency in Africa, at the foot of Kgale hill." (the first sentence of the book, actually)
I chose this book because my godmother had sent it to me for Christmas and I really enjoyed the first chapter and it interested my a lot, so why not read something that you enjoy!
KF
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