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Despite being born in South Africa, Bessie Head moved to Botswana in 1964 and was granted citizenship there 15 years later. She lived in poverty for most of her life. However, just before her death in 1986, she began to receive the kind of renown as a writer that would have cushioned her from poverty. Before she died, she told her agent: “My beautiful