In the story of "When Rain Clouds Gather"Makhaya has escaped from his old country to go to Botswana. Once he finds himself inside of the Botswana borders, he is hiding as a refugee inside of Dinorego's house. When Dinorego first met Makhaya, he watches out for Makhaya and introduced him to his daughter, Maria, and his good friend Gilbert. Gilbert has big plans for Golema Mmidi, plans to modernize the country and open the people's eyes to new things and other stuff that he discovers. He needs to change the way that the people of the country see things. If all Golema plans get discover the women would be able to speak out for theme selves, and the brutal actions towards them would be stopped. The men would be able to stay home with their family and not have to travel around with cattle and children will be able to stay home and go to school. Chief Matenge highly dislikes Dinorego and Gilbert. He feels that they are trying to take over when really they are only trying to help him. The Chief only wants to stay in power and rule over all of the land which can't be done because of his enemy Chief Sekoto which is his brother.This book is kinda good, meanwhile I think something's going to happen between Paulina and Makhaya.