Payment in Kind, 2nd Revised Edition

Description:

They were both misfits in their society; and the arrival of Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa provided a timely escape route. The couple despised their culture, and it showed in the way they brought up their children. Scorned and maligned, their ancestral spirits hit back with a vengeance– and made them pay in kind. A tragi-comedy exploiting to very good effect the popular African-culture-versus-Christianity yarn, and also a monograph dealing with an important but hitherto little explored subject – alienation from the self.

Places: Dar es Salaam,  the United States