Footprints, food, and fiction for thought

This week, Patricia McCracken's book selection takes you on a journey - exploring the roots of South Africa's first inhabitants, discovering ‘good-mood food', and embarking on adventures in Australia and Ireland.

Fading Footprints: In Search of South Africa's First People by José Manuel de Prada-Samper (Jonathan Ball, R350) The footprints of the San people, or Bushmen, may be fading, but the research into these fascinating people is not. There is a host of modern scholarly work about South Africa’s First Nation people and no shortage of scholarly articles and books. And, of course, the actual Bushmen are still with us today, as the author discovers, many of whom are living impoverished lives in the most arid parts of the Northern Cape and Karoo. However, what is also fading is their unique culture. So, this book, written by a Spanish folklorist, cannot but assist in the desire, especially in academia, to recognise the importance of these people who were first here in this…

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Farmer's Weekly (Digital) - 1 Issue, 28 March 2025

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