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The Baringo kid : confrontations with Africa / Thomas F. Pawlick.
LIBRA DT433.527 .P39 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pawlick, Thomas.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic assistance.
- Baringo District (Kenya)--Social conditions.
- Baringo District (Kenya).
- Kenya--Description and travel.
- Kenya.
- Economic assistance--Kenya--Baringo District.
- Kenya--Baringo District.
- Physical Description:
- 147 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2002]
- Summary:
- The Baringo Kid is an eyewitness account of daily life among an expatriate development aid community in East Africa during the end of the Cold War. Based on the author's personal experience while working with several aid organizations, including the United Nations, it turns a lens on the lives of Africans, ordinary and extraordinary, and often unabashedly mercenary non-African expats with whom they for years shared a relationship of mutual aid and exploitation.
- Contents:
- 1. The first step 1
- 2. A good Samaritan 5
- 3. Bring Kaopectate 13
- 4. The mercenaries 21
- 5. "How is you?" 33
- 6. No credit 43
- 7. The Baringo Kid 53
- 8. Routines 59
- 9. Anna 69
- 10. A shoot at Limuru 79
- 11. Fishing Naivasha 95
- 12. Kilimanjaro 107
- 13. The ghosts of Mombasa 117
- 14. Callback 127
- 15. Somali madness 141.
- ISBN:
- 0761822259
- OCLC:
- 50728290
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