Back from Africa by Corinne Hofmann

Author:Corinne Hofmann [Corinne Hofmann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781908129215
Publisher: Arcadia Books Limited
Published: 2011-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

James’s most recent letter says thanks for the photos of Napirai. Mama and Lketinga were very upset when they saw them; they miss us both so much still. He encloses a picture of Lketinga’s new wife. I immediately recognise her as someone who as a little girl used to come into the shop often to buy sugar or maize flour. She was very quiet and relatively inconspicuous. I’m pleased for the two of them and particularly to hear from James that Lketinga has given up alcohol completely. He says he’ll send me a picture of their new baby later. It’s a little girl, ten months old already. But his long letter contains bad news too. Lketinga’s older brother’s wife, Mama Saguna, has had a lot of health problems and has been in hospital now for three months. She can’t come home until they’ve paid the hospital bill and on top of that they owe money to the Somalis for a makeshift ambulance service to take her from Barsaloi to Wamba. I can imagine it really must have been a matter of life and death, because a patient has to be more dead than alive before they even think of a hospital. I know from my own experience that first of all they’ll try every type of traditional medicine. James says my mother-in-law has now got his brother’s five children and their newborn living with her and none of them have enough to eat. James asks me once again to send some money to help them, which upsets me a lot, primarily because now that I’m unemployed I haven’t even enough money to get by myself. Instead I ask my older brother and Hanspeter if they can spare some which both readily agree to.

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