Refreshed from a decent night"s sleep and two (mostly) hearty meals, Nosuma settled back into the passenger seat, Kwena driving. Nosuma hadn"t been able to make it through either meal without having to go outside to purge. The hot sirocco propelled them north at incredible speeds, it seemed, Nosuma rapt in the lengthy thesis. In addition to a hundred thousand words of text, the thesis also contained transcriptions of numerous recordings Matipa had done with elders across the main continent. Transcriptions from the original Shona oral histories. Sans a written language, the Shona had been translated before it had been transcribed. Nosuma wished she could hear the original recordings. But the conclusions from a literal perspective were certainly far beyond an Ethnographer"s scope of know