Unity Dow

Unity Dow’s third novel, Juggling Truths portrays the childhood of Monei Ntuka in the Botswanan village of Mochudi in Africa. Go to the past with me, so you can take the past to the future, asks her Nkoko. Nei takes us on an extraordinary journey through the many truths that shape her life; the truths of the colonisers and their churches and of her own people. We travel with her through dreams and share the wisdom of her grandmother as she lets the never-ending stories weave their own reality in face of a universe of conflicting truths. Unity Dow recreates with telling insight and gentle humour a world where the truths of the missionaries and the witchdoctors jostle with those of the generations of women.

REISSUE JUNE 2026 | ISBN 9781922964489 | Paperback | 216 x 140 mm | 173 pages

Unity Dow

The Heavens May Fall takes up the story of a fiery up-and-coming lawyer at the Bana-Bantle Children’s Agency in Mochudi, Botswana. Naledi Chaba’s caseload is bulging with stories of rape and abuse. So when she takes on the case of a 15-year-old girl who has been raped by the lodger, she’s on a familiar battleground, involving her own peers. And it’s not only J.J., her silk-shirt-wearing, cigar-smoking legal opponent, who’s happy to avoid taking moral responsibility. Justice Mmung, the High Court Judge hearing the case, has secrets in his past. It’s yet another example of hypocrisy in high places, and she’s tired of it. Naledi is giving the Junior Bar address at the Law Society Annual Dinner: is this the place to publicly expose him? But digging into the past holds surprises. Their generation was shaped by the Botswana of no tar roads, cattle posts and customary law … and what will she find at the end of a three-hour trip down dusty dirt roads into the desert?

Unity Dow’s latest novel is a fascinating and uncompromising exposé of the ways in which the law can fail the weakest. Yet it’s also a witty homage to the everyday texture of life in Botswana, permeated by the smell of bogobe and tripe, home-cooked in a three-legged pot by a loving father. The Heavens May Fall continues Unity Dow’s examination of an African culture dealing with the pressures of colonisation and globalisation by looking at the effect of global issues on individual women’s and men’s lives. The Heavens May Fall takes the microscope to the legal profession, the lives of victim and judge, counsel and plaintiff. Unity has a background as an advocate and legal activist and knows the Botswana legal system in the same way that John Grisham knows his courts. Her court drama is gripping and as one reviewer noted "as tight as a hawser" and "a nail-gnawing read to the end".

2007 | ISBN 9781876756482 | Paperback | 212 x 136 mm | 191 pp

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Unity Dow

We are looking for a man with a hard heart; a heart of stone; a heart of a real man. One afternoon, a twelve-year-old girl goes missing near her village. The local police tell her mother and the villagers she has been taken by a wild animal. Five years later, a young government employee Amantle Bokaa finds a box bearing the label ‘Neo Kakang; CRB 45/94’. It contains evidence of human involvement in the affair. So begins an illegal and undercover struggle for justice and retribution. A powerful story of corruption, The Screaming of the Innocent challenges the romantic representations of Africa. Botswana High Court judge Unity Dow continues the fight she began with Far and Beyon’, to give her country a strong voice in the bookshelves of the world.

2002 | ISBN 9781876756208 | Paperback | 215 x 140 mm | 215 pp

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Unity Dow

For Mara, mother of four, and sole provider for her family, life has never been easy. In her community women carry a heavy burden as the world changes around them. In Botswana the tensions are growing as young people attempt to resolve the magicks of tradition with the technologies of now.

2001 | ISBN 9781876756079 | Paperback | 217 x 138 mm | 199 pp

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