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Paul Woods

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Paul Woods spent 1972 as a VSO teacher of English at a government secondary school in Kaltungo, in north-east Nigeria. Based on letters he wrote, interspersed with flashbacks to the days of the early missionaries in Kaltungo and fast-forwarding to the present day, he describes the trials and tribulations of a volunteer teacher, including linguistic and cultural misunderstandings, a farcical public execution, tribal warfare at a school football match, supervising exams, catching cheats and preparing lesson plans retrospectively for a government inspection. Books ordered for the school library take forever to arrive. He also highlights the difficulties of life in a remote village, contending with no water and electricity, fighting off poisonous snakes, buying milk from nomadic Fulani tribespeople, and choosing between goat and dog meat in the local market. A grand tour of West Africa by motorbike takes him via the former territory of breakaway Biafria as far as Bolgatanga in northern Ghana.

Author Biography:

Paul Woods worked for the British Council for 37 years, holding a variety of posts in English teaching and management in a range of countries including Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Mozambique, The Philippines, Brazil, Nepal, Botswana, Argentina and Uruguay. His first overseas teaching assignment was with Voluntary Service Overseas in NE State, Nigeria. At the last count, he had visited 117 different countries.

Release date Australia

February 24th, 2016

Author

Paul Woods

Pages

142

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Dimensions

152x229x8

ISBN-13

9781517712716

Product ID

37606336

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