A Bend in the River

I would say to her, in that mixed river language we used, “One day, Beth, somebody will snatch your case. It isn’t safe to travel about with money like that.”
“The day that happens, Mis’ Salim, I will know the time has come to stay home.”

There is a simple democracy about Africa: everyone is a villager.

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.