This historical novel is drawn from domestic and community life of Sakina evolving around two objects of women’s art. Both are of considerable social and artistic values among two culturally unalike people living side by side as separate yet in some ways inter-reliant societies on the savannah. One art object is the bandhani shawl of the Khoja Ismailis
via Splendours of dawn in my English suitcase: Bandhani and Emankeeki details.
Earlier related: Splendours of dawn in my English suitcase – by Sultan Somjee
Who were these Bead Bais of East Africa who came to Canada as grandmothers?
Ismailimail 