Family Life in West Africa - 50 stories about loving Africa

Robin-Edward Poulton, MA Hons 1969

Family Life in West Africa is a book full of fun ! Robin and his wife Michelle raised their children in French-speaking Africa – their white children, and also the children of Malian friends who died. Here are 50 good stories filled with laughter and African wisdom, as Robin raises crocodiles while managing rural development projects under challenging climatic and political conditions. Michelle was West African director of Save the Children; Robin ran ActionAid and Oxfam-funded programmes in Mali and Gambia. The stories are amusing, enlightening, and some are sad: like the small girl suffering from conjunctivitis, whose eyes are carefully washed with a soothing infusion of cold tea. The tea was successful, some ointment was applied and her eyes recovered. At a time when climate change increases West Africa’s poverty and is making life painfully hot, this book brings us back to the essential: the vulnerable human lives of children. The cover picture shows the Poulton family in Timbuktu on 01.01.1982. When you buy the book from Amazon, you will enjoy good laughs, and discover unusual things things about Africa lived from the inside. Good stories, good writing. The perfect Christmas gift for all your family. Here are the links for UK, USA and Australia : UK https://amzn.eu/d/dJUoLjF US https://a.co/d/czzA31u AU https://amzn.asia/d/fwKeYz0 website: https://robinpoulton.com/

ISBN: 9798337847993