Caroline Kautsire

What Kind of Girl? Caroline Kautsire

An African Child Caught Between Worlds. For Caroline, being a girl is already confusing, and growing up in the small African country of Malawi, she is constantly asked the question, What kind of girl behaves this way? With a thousand cultural ideas flooding into her head from American TV and movies, she struggles to fit into the traditional African society she was born into. Instead, she chooses to stand out by taking risks that are curious beyond what is proper, leading to disapproval and harsh consequences. At nine years old, she finds herself enrolled in a high school at a boarding school far from her home and parents. Alone, she