"There are books that inform and books that initiate. Dr Mmatshilo Motsei's work does the latter ... what she has built is not simply an argument for Indigenous midwifery. It is an honest reckoning with the in-between space, the threshold between the colonised self and the self that that is slowly returning. The book does not offer easy restoration. It offers something more honest: a way of seeing clearly enough to begin. For anyone who suspects that how we are born and how we birth shape the world we are capable of imagining, this book offers the necessary medicine." Kainyu Njeri, birth worker and regenerative systems designer, Tanzania