Plague of Caterpillars - A Return to the African Bush Barley NigelPaperback
Plague of Caterpillars - A Return to the African Bush Barley NigelPaperback When local contacts tipped off Nigel Barley that the Dowayo circumcision ceremony was about to take place, he immediately…
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Plague of Caterpillars - A Return to the African Bush Barley NigelPaperback
When local contacts tipped off Nigel Barley that the Dowayo circumcision ceremony was about to take place, he immediately left London for the village in northern Cameroon where he had lived as a field anthropologist for 18 months. It was an opportunity that was too good to miss, a key moment to test the balance of tradition and modernity. The Dowayos are a mountain people that perform their elaborate, fascinating and fearsome ceremony at six or seven year intervals.
In the meantime, witchcraft fills the Cameroonian air, a man is lied to by his own foot and an Yet, like much else in this hilarious book - the circumcision ceremony was to prove frustratingly elusive.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.
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