A letter To new Zola

Dear New-Old-Naledi,

You, New Zola, or ‘Zola yo Mosha,’ embody the promise of renewal for Old Naledi, that weathered matriarch of Gaborone’s settlements. Many don’t know you but I do. You exist only in my head, perhaps even heads of many other Batswana. 

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