The Python Trail : An Immigrant's Path from Cameroon to America

✍ Scribed by Richard Afuma; Thatcher Freund

Publisher: Down East Books
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 236
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Growing up in remote Cameroon, Richard Afuma could not expect to live much past the age of 40, and his chances of any sort of education were slim. But at the age of eight, Afuma found his way to a school run by Baptist missionaries. When he was ten, he saw his first white person who, from his education, he took to be Jesus Christ. He was told that the Land Rovers he saw were made by these same people—Jesuses with supernatural powers—who were uniformly called Americans. In The Python Trail, Afuma portrays the kind of journey that many immigrants have made, but few have described.

✦ Subjects

Adventure -- Fiction. ; Cameroon -- Fiction. ; Immigrant -- Fiction.

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