Publisher's Synopsis
This is a window into the intimate daily lives of tribal peoples in the interior of thisWest African country, and a time capsule into a time before everything waschanged by twenty years of civil wars.It is more than the experiences of American children living abroad, and a family'slearning about a foreign culture they live in the midst. This is an in depth glimpseinto the deep interior of a region almost unknown to most people. Even to thisday, when any referral is made to this country, nothing is said about the interiorand it's people.These personal stories bring the reader into the villages, where ancient tribalrituals and myths exist as they have for centuries, and no outsiders have everseen before or since. Many of the indigenous villagers and their children hadnever before seen a white person.This journey chronicles the stories of a six-year old boy, and his personalrelationship with the children he befriends, and his integration into a culture heembraces
