The Train House on Lobengula Street

How can Kulsum Kassim give her daughters all the same educational opportunities as boys without offending against the cultural traditions of her Indian Muslim family? In the first-part of a new family saga set in 1950s-60s Africa, first-time author Fatima Kara reveals the tensions that occur when women's expectations in the Bulawayan branch of the Khumbar caste in sophisticated Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) outpace those of relations in rural Uganda, where family members go to for arranged marriages.