jessjoah

I loved expanding my feel for Africa through reading this. (It seems I'm investingating Africa lately with "Hotel Rwanda," "African History," and "Krik? Krak!") I really liked the sentiment that a person's heart belongs to a certain country. Certainly not the first time I've heard that, but I guess it meant a little bit more in this African setting, where I had to try a little harder to imagine loving the land--I'm so European! (English and Scandinavian mainly :) One of my favorite paragraphs: "The problem, of course, was that people did not seem to understand the difference between right and wrong. They needed to be reminded about this, because if you left it to them to work out for themselves, they would never bother. They would just find out what was best for them, and then they would call that the right thing. That's how most people thought." Also, on the next page, a chuckle: "She was a short lady, almost entirely round, with an exceptionally deep voice. She taught the children hymns(...)and because they learned their singing from her the children's choir all sang an octave below everybody else, as if they were all frogs."

2022-11-14 16:26