Cool stuff! I really liked Washing of the Spears (although I admit to skimming over some of the nitty gritty -- the thing was about a gazillion pages long), but that's because I've been pretty South African/Zulu-centric in my interests (comes from idolizing Johnny Clegg.)

Of course, I've recently picked up Alexander McCall Smith's The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency books, so we'll see if I move northward.