My African horse problem:
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Amherst
Univ. of Massachusetts Press
2008
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| Beschreibung: | XX, 173 S. |
| ISBN: | 9781558496828 9781558496811 |
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| adam_text | In February
2000,
William Miles
set off from Massachusetts for a
Muslim village in West Africa
with his ten-year-old son Samuel
to settle an inheritance dispute
over a horse. National Public Radio was so intrigued with
this story that All Things Considered broadcast his pre-
departure testament, as well as a follow-up commentary
on what actually happened.
My African Horse Problem recounts the intricacies of this
unusual father-son expedition, a sometimes harrowing
two-week trip that Samuel joined as true heir to the
disputed stallion. It relates the circumstances leading up
to the dispute and describes the intimacy of a relation¬
ship spanning a quarter century between William Miles
and the custodians of his family horse
—
Islamic village
friends eking out a precarious existence along the remote
sub-Saharan borderline between Nigeria and Niger.
My African Horse Problem is a multi-layered narrative
—
part memoir, part ethnography
—
reaching back to Miles s
days as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Niger in the
1970s
and a Fulbright scholar in the 1980s. At a deeper level,
the story juxtaposes the idealistic and sometimes
irresponsible tendencies of a young university graduate
with the parental concerns of a middle-aged, tenured
professor. Miles wonders if he was justified in exposing
Sam to some of the worst health risks on earth, mainly
to restore tenuous ties with long-ago friends in the
African bush. Was it reckless to make his son illegally
cross international boundaries, in a quixotic quest for
justice and family honor? My African Horse Problem is
more than an adventurer s tale with a unique story line:
it is a father-son travel rumination, leavened by Sam s
journal entries that help his father see Africa anew
through a child s fresh eyes. In this era of religious
and racial tensions, it is also
a reaffirmation
—
within
a black Muslim context
—
of the basic human imperative
of trust.
Cover design by Richard
Hendel
Cover photograph by
William F. S.
Miles
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