Encountering Baboons and Other African Stories

Name: Encountering Baboons and Other African Stories
Brand: Troubador Publishing

Troubador Publishing

Encountering Baboons and Other African StoriesAuthor(s): Wil Gesler\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Troubador Publishing, United Kingdom\nImprint: Troubador Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781806341269, 978-1806341269\nSynopsis\nSet in the years between 1970 and 1982 in three newly independent countries, these stories dramatize the interactions between different cultures in the post-colonial period.\n\nThe Night Watchman, based on the theme of theft, tells the tale of an Englishwoman and her husband living in West Africa, who hire a local man to guard their property and become intimately involved with the health of him and his wife.\n\nIn Dealing with the Health of the People, an American [url] student discovers that everything must be bartered for, from articles for daily living, to his use of local labour, to providing health care for ordinary people, as he gathers data from a West African maternal and child health clinic for his dissertation.\n\nEncountering Baboons follows a young American .