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9781906768218

The Last Banana

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  • ISBN13:

    9781906768218

  • ISBN10:

    1906768218

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2010-08-01
  • Publisher: Stacey Intl
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Summary

An absorbing new account of a lifetime’s travel through Africa by the author of the best-selling Among Insurgents: Walking Through Burma. The Last Banana began when, anticipating nationalization, Shelby Tucker’s friend invited him to visit Tanzania to help him to spend the last banana” of his unremittable fortune”. This was the first of 16 African trips spanning 43 years. In this absorbing and elegantly written book, Tucker recalls conditions in equatorial Africa before the European ‘scramble’ for colonies. He reminds us of Livingstone’s vision of ending the slave trade by bringing ‘the 3 Cs’ (Commerce, Christianity and Civilization), and contrasts the moral force and fruits of the pioneer missionaries and explorers who brought Christianity to Africa with the triviality of modern travel and the surrealism of ‘democracy’ and ‘freedom’ expounded in Africa today.

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