A tribute to Howard Head
Friday, June 11, 2010
He was only 48 years old when he passed on and like his mother, he died relatively young. In 2007, multitudes of Bessie Head fans and scholars converged on the capital of the Bangwato to celebrate what would have been Head's 70th birthday and it is safe to assume that many had hoped to catch a glimpse of the son to the celebrated woman who has put Botswana on the map as far as the literary arts are concerned.
While Howard was neither a writer nor a well-known figure himself, he was the only link the rest of the world had to the long departed, Bessie.
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