Africa Askew: Traversing the Continent

✍ Scribed by Boehm, Peter

• Book ID: 109518568
• Publisher: Babelcube Inc.
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 202 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

AFRICA ASKEW was in the Top Ten of the German Amazon Travel&Adventure; section for almost a year.

Peter Boehm travelled right across Africa, in speeding SUVs, rickety buses and dilapidated trains. He travelled for almost six months, over 6,000 miles, through nine countries - Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Sudan, Chad, Nigeria, Niger, Mali and Senegal.

The journey was breathtaking and nerve-shattering, but never dull. The people he met were exciting, bizarre and pathetic, but they never leave you cold. In Somali, Peter Boehm describes psychiatrists who consider all their compatriots to be mad - as do the Somalis themselves and, in the end, even the author thinks he's mad too! In Sudan, he meets doctors who re-seal women; in Chad there are street kids already sitting on their suitcases, awaiting the journey to Germany; in Mali he meets traditional healers who are, at the same time, GPs, best friends, and agony aunts; in Nigeria there are traditional leaders whose...