A Bend in the River
Salim, an Indian trader from the East African coast, buys a shop in a town at a bend in the great river of a country newly out of colonial rule. Business comes back, a domain of the President rises on the edge of town, and the rebellions move closer. A trader watching a new Africa consume itself; history as flood.
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- responds to ↑ Heart of Darkness
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