num_pages: 170
description: Daba was born in Ouadda in what is now the Central African Republic. His mother often told him about the terrible dry season that year when elephants buffaloes and antelopes stampeded through the countryside in a frenzied search for water. Even panthers stalked the bush around the village often carrying innocent sheep. Safe near his parents' hut Daba listened to the story time and time again. And as he grew loved and protected there grew in him a strength of spirit and a deep love for his native village. But Daba was not destined to live his live in Ouadda. When he was still a young boy he left his beloved home on the first of a series of journeys that would lead him farther and farther away--even to France. For Daba's parents wanted him to be educated a rare and special privilege not often enjoyed by poor village children.... The life history and tradition of the people of the Central African Republic are described with great feeling by Bambote for Daba's Travels is a recollection of his own childhood and youth.
language: English
title: Daba's Travels from Ouadda to Bangui
publisher: Pantheon Books