The Witch Doctor's Wife (2009)
“This is an exaggeration, but there are more than ninety species that are harmful to people. Poisonous snakes include the gaboon viper, the puff adder, the death adder, the black mamba, the green mamba, and the spitting cobra. The African rock python is not poisonous, but strangles its victims. It can grow to twenty-five feet and is capable of swallowing an antelope whole—even a small person.
Husband found sleeping impossible. It wasn’t just because of the jackals, which had set the village dogs... howling, but worry over how the morning would play itself out. The white man always had the advantage.
That was a fact as old as recorded history, even history as told by the white man. The early Portuguese explorers had discovered a land governed by powerful kings and less powerful chiefs, but black men all. Less than four hundred years later the Congo was in the sole possession of Belgium’s King Leopold II, whose method of ruling was so brutal, the League of Nations forced him to cede the land over to Belgium Parliament.MoreLess
Husband found sleeping impossible. It wasn’t just because of the jackals, which had set the village dogs... howling, but worry over how the morning would play itself out. The white man always had the advantage.
That was a fact as old as recorded history, even history as told by the white man. The early Portuguese explorers had discovered a land governed by powerful kings and less powerful chiefs, but black men all. Less than four hundred years later the Congo was in the sole possession of Belgium’s King Leopold II, whose method of ruling was so brutal, the League of Nations forced him to cede the land over to Belgium Parliament.MoreLess
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