French Lessons In Africa: Travels with my Briefcase through French Africa

Having travelled across West Africa for over ten years, Peter Biddlecombe's often hilarious account of a long and lingering liaison dangereuse with the sixty per cent of the continent that is French-speaking is a highly readable, hugely entertaining introduction to the je ne sais quoi of French Africa.
In countries such as Togo, Mali and Burkina Faso, Biddlecome encounters old-fashioned camel butchers, modern witch doctors who run mail-order companies, gold smugglers and counterfeiters who send their sons to Oxford. He also experiences a delicious foie gras of places: from eerie voodoo ceremonies in the old slave port of Ouidah to Italian ice-cream parlors in the middle of the Sahara desert.
And Biddlecombe reveals not only Francophone Africa's politics, often bizarre business traditions and culture, but also provides a mass of practical advice on everything from how to eat a water-rat to talking your way through a road block in the middle of an attempted coup.

Title - French Lessons In Africa: Travels with my Briefcase through French Africa

Edition -

Author - Peter Biddlecombe

ISBN 13 - 9780349105093

Imprint - Abacus

Publisher - Little, Brown Book Group

Date Published - 06/01/1994

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No. of pages -

Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 126 x 198 x 25mm

Weight - 535 g

Languages - English