May
14
2009
Crazy about the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
Author: adminjol501I have been following the HBO Original Series, The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency for sometime now. I fell in love with everything in the story. It is wholesome entertainment for the family. It shows there how people need one another.
The story is written by a British writer Alexander McCall Smith. When he visited Botswana, he fell in love with the character of a woman vendor there and decided to write a story about the character. This is where he come up with the story, The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency which has now become an HBO Original series.
The main character in the series is Mma Precious Ramotswe played by Jill Scott. She founded The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency in which she is also the main detective. The people in Gabarone, the capital of Botswana go to the agency for solutions to their problems. I love the character of Precious here. She is a strong, determined, unstoppable, highly credible person and always eager to help. She also has a soft side, sweet, loving, sincere and vulnerable to her ex-husband, who physically abused her in their marriage.
From left: Grace Makutsi, Precious Ramotswe and J.L.B Matekoni
Other prominent characters are Mma Grace Makutsi , the secretary of Precious. She is sometimes naive but honest, intelligent and loyal to Precious. J.L.B. Matekoni is the friend of Precious who eventually will become her husband.
I really love the fact that the story setting is Botswana. You can learn from their place, culture, beliefs and the kind of community that they have. You get better appreciation of Africa through the story. It makes you see that we are not that different after all. The people there maybe different but they basically have the same values and problems as ours.
