“Call me Mara for I am Bitter:” A Womanist Impression of the Wailing Women of Naomi/Laban Showers, 2022

Abstract

This paper is one of a series of papers that have come out of a research project entitled “Botho/Ubuntu and Community Building in the Urban Space: An Exploration of Naomi, Laban, Bridal and Baby Showers in Gaborone. The project was carried out by a group of female researchers from across the University of Botswana and was made possible by the generous funding of John Templeton Foundation.