A Plague of Caterpillars - A Return to the African Bush (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Eland Publishing Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2018
Authors:	Nigel Barley
Dimensions:	139 x 215 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	312
ISBN-13:	978-1-78060-151-9
Categories:	Books > Sport & Leisure > Travel & holiday > General Books > Travel > General
LSN:	1-78060-151-4
Barcode:	9781780601519

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