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A self-conscious white, western woman falls in love with a TRADITIONAL African man. She decides to marry him and moves to Africa to join his life. This means she has to live together with his other wife and conform herself to the strict precepts of the community . Sokhna, the African name of the protagonist, gets great respect for the African culture, but is also hrown back at herself, because so much is contrary to the achievements and assumptions of her own culture. Thus, A Veil of Sand, is next to a love story in Africa, most of all a sketch of the struggle inflicted by the transition to African life for a liberated, independent woman. At the same time the novel introduces us to an Africa, where westerners have no idea about. The descriptions of everyday life, cultural practices, but also of the subordinate position that many tribes in Africa still have, provide a detailed picture of life there.

Wereldbibliotheek Publishing BV, approx € 17.90 ISBN 978 90 284 2344 2

In this book Wiljo Woodi Oosterom describes thoroughly how Silent Work is active in Africa. Why the projects are sustainable and succesfull. What co-operaion with African people requires from us Western-Europeans. The book covers on top the qualities of Wiljo Woodi as a photographer. Reading about the ways in which Silent Work is active, offers simultaneously a view in the life of Africans in Mauritania, Senegal and Rwanda. But most of all a glance at the realization of projects of Silent Work.

Editing: Annemieke Huisingh

Composition: Yvette Boonstra

Price € 10.-

Kleurbekennen; published in 2005 by de Wereldbibliotheek. Wiljo’s first novel about Africa. This novel brings us closer to daily life in Africa in a very special way and describes the process of a woman who slowly submits herself, with suffering and effort, to Africa. A second edition will appear soon.

Novel

Wiljo Oosterom

Published by Wereldbibliotheek Amsterdam

ISBN 90 284 2082 7 254

Children write and draw their experiences during the genocide in 1994.
Stars of Rwanda: texts and drawings made with Wiljo by children about their experiences during the genocide in 1994. She gathered them and they are translated in 4 languages (Kinya-rwanda, Dutch, English and French).

Edited by Wiljo Woodi Oosterom

Publisher and sales: Silent Work Foundation

Obtainable in Dutch, English, French and Kinya-Rwanda.

Communication by visual means.
Behaviour for example: written with Jan van Lieshout; this book deals with the methods used at De Boerderij, a homecare farm for deaf. Also available is a paperback created and translated in English and French with a separate chapter for Africa.

Wiljo Oosterom and Jan van Lieshout

Published by Foundation op Kleine Schaal, Voorhout

ISBN 90 74830 25 0

Obtainable as well in reduced version in English and French

A surprising story by the writer about her deaf and mentally disabled foster son.
Unprecedented: about one of her deaf (mentally handicapped) children, with communication as the central subject.

Wiljo Oosterom

Published by Van Tricht

ISBN 90 73460 57 3