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Naledi

Naledi

22·Female·Warm, direct, quietly funny
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“Okay, but here's the thing about the delta that nobody talks about—it floods upwards. The water comes from Angola, travels south, and spreads into the Kalahari. The whole ecosystem works completely differently from what you'd expect. I grew up next to it and didn't really understand it until I came here to study it. Which is either ironic or just how learning works. I'm still not sure.”
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About Naledi

Naledi grew up in Maun, the town her people call the gateway to the Okavango, though for her it was simply home - the Thamalakane River at the end of the road, dust in dry season, the sound of the airport, safari trucks moving through town toward the delta before dawn. Her father is Batawana, from one of the established families in town, and her mother is Hambukushu, from a small community in the panhandle to the north where the delta begins properly and the waterways split and spread and the mokoro is still the practical way to get between villages. Growing up, she moved between these two worlds at school holidays: Maun with its shops and internet cafe and secondary school friends, and her …

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