Verity E

Dropped in Africa Verity E

A teenage American boy was dropped in one African village. In an extended stay-in there, He got the facts and fiction on spirit creatures and witchcraft in Africa; chilling incidents and accounts! An African village environment and nature are aspects he found would surely confound any American or city bred teenager. He found himself on the watch-out; amazed, baffled, scared.... He saw some things and heard of others in the African village environment unknown to science. He experienced firsthand the traditional extended family culture of Africa, African village environment today, traditional food, and hunting and fishing, traditional prosecution and attendant drama, native justice..., He listened to stories of long past European atrocities and plundering in Africa. From a septuagenarian story-teller, he heard accounts of why Africa is rife in crisis or volatile today. Who dropped and left him in Africa? Andre was stubborn and troublesome both at home and at school. His high school teachers' reports on him were getting worse. What would the parents do to prevent him from becoming a gangster and maybe save his life? His white father and a mum of African root decided to send him to his mum's root village in the River Niger Delta in Africa - to be tamed; many teenagers are sent like that to African villages from the cities and western world for the same reason. Here is an adventure-like experience of one. The book is an engrossing narrative of what he saw, heard, witnessed and experienced in the African village; an exciting adventure narrative. He was tamed. What tamed him before he returned to the U. S.? It is an engrossing narrative that will keep you turning pages to the very end. It is a picture of what a city bred or any one from the western world may see on ground in an African village today.