This very failure, compounded by the plague of caterpillars of the
book s title allows Nigel Barley to concentrate on everyday life in
Dowayoland and the tattered remnants of an overripe French colonial
legacy. Witchcraft fills the Cameroonian air; add an earnest German
traveller showing explicit birth?control propaganda to the
respectable Dowayos, an interest in the nipple?mutilating practices
of highlanders, unanswered questions of the link between
infertility and circumcision and you have the ingredients of a
comic masterpiece. But beneath all the joy and shared laughter
there is a skilful and wise reflection on the problems of different
cultures ever understanding one another. The Dowayos are a mountain
people that perform their elaborate, fascinating and fearsome
ceremony at six or seven year intervals. It was an opportunity that
was too good to miss, a key moment to test the balance of tradition
and modernity. Yet, like much else in this hilarious book the
circumcision ceremony was to prove frustratingly elusive.
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