Motherland

Leah was somewhat aware of the powerful forces in her upbringing. It was an existence with not much interference from modern day technology. Theirs was a livelihood of barely getting by, yet never short of fulfilment. She was the youngest of the siblings growing up in a village, right in the heart of rural Africa. With a multitude of brothers and sisters before her, was she to simply follow a very distinctive path. How was she to mould her own being within a network of relationships, values and expectations? It has never been more difficult to distinguish between reality and imagination.