Madness in Duggart, by Mamotladi Ivy Matloga

Madness in Duggart, by Mamotladi Ivy MatlogaThe year is 1986. While most of Duggarts mentally afflicted inhabitants are scattered in mental hospitals, traditional healers quarters and churches healing quarters, Dooks, like an uncomfortable number of other mentally ill people, is singing to a different tune. Dooks Digame is in a class of his own. Funny, witty, scary, wise,spooky , weird, creepy, sick, intense, psychic, shrink, dangerous: all these labels have been used to describe Dooks . He has

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