Winifred Mccaffrey

Gule Wamkulu - the Big Dance Winifred Mccaffrey

On the eve of AIDS, Zimbabwe battles forIndependence----An American expatriate remembers her home, gardenand hope-filled Zambians in Zambia when, taking up Zimbabwe's battle, bombsfall, murders happen, food shortages bring starvation.¿ Her bipolar American anthropologist husbandgoes near berserk.¿ Bombs kill the innocent, vicious murders gounexplained; starvation and death threaten when food, medicalsupplies--equipment and vital machinery are disallowed entry into Zambia'sland-locked land.¿ Gifted and bipolar, the anthropologist, searchingevery specter of political innuendo, ends in his undoing.¿ The writer, deeply interested in the landand its people, experiences Zambian kindness, warmth, procrastination, suspicion,and joy.¿ This singular, independent, intrigue with Zambia aswell as the dynamics of their love, provide memoir's landscape. The young American University librarian, responsiblefor the couple's residency in Zambia, yields wrenching complications.¿ The marriage suffers collapse. AIDScreeps into the landscape.