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Goodbye,
Dr
Banda Lessons for the
West
From
a
Small
African
Country
Description

You may never have been may never go may
never even have
heard of the placebut Malawi will repay your
attention It is one of the smallest poorest
countries in Africa often overlooked but its
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relationship with us in the West has been
extraordinaryIn a ruined dictators palace
Alexander Chulaa classicistturneddoctor fresh out
of Oxfordstumbles upon an oak treasure chest
Inside is a priceless antique edition of Julius
Caesars Gallic War This unexpected talisman of
Western high culture belongs to the mercurial Dr
Banda a man of many parts scholarly physician
anticolonial hero brutal tyrant and fallen
philosopherkingBanda leads the author deep into
the heart of this mysterious country there to
uncover a bizarre meeting of worlds between one
of Africas most fascinating indigenous cultures
and the best and worst of our own Here tribal
ritual collides with Greek theatre masked dancers
with roving classicists poets and pop stars with
missionaryexplorers hippies and kleptocrats with
longsuffering peasantsThe story is enigmatic but
exhilarating by turns edifying and deeply
uncomfortable But we would do well to examine it
Malawi presents urgent lessons which resonate
piercingly in our vexed age of culture wars and
identity crisis