Our Painted Village is a very fun book for young readers to learn about the Ndebele Tribe in South Africa. A little girl is telling the storry. She talks about her life as a girl in a South African Tribe. It mostly talks about her life in a "painted village." The Ndebele Tribe are very involved when it comes to art. They make beautiful dolls and sell them at local Markets. They paint there houses to Match their family's social status. But it mostly talks about how much she loves her village and how much it means to her