“The oral histories are clear,” Nosuma said to the board of directors, her voice strong and authoritative in spite of her tenuous employment status. She"d been called back to Institute Headquarters in Harare, summoned by an impersonal holomail message, its wording inevitably ambiguous. “An investigation into irregularities requires your appearance before the Institute Board of Directors. You will appear at the board chambers on September 15th at 9:00 am.”
Not a word on Doctor Kaonde"s threat to fire her.
In anticipation, she"d prepared a draft report on her recently excavated artifacts.
They"d invited her to sit, her chair below theirs, the board looking down at her from a raised arc forming a near semicircle around her. And then the Chair had asked her to provide them an update on her
