And there are situations like the birthing house that needed a new roof but that didn't mean tearing the entire building down and starting over.ĭo Americans and other foreigners have the right to intrude in another culture? It depends on the meaning of "intrude." Clearly in the past Americans have pushed their way into other cultures trying to help - and failing. But there are situations where you start from scratch and build where nothing has been there before - hence, there is no destruction just constructive building. Sometimes in order to create a better facility the old one must come down. I don't agree entirely with that passage. "Life giving rains came at the expense of devastating erosion." Topsoil that was badly needed for crops was "washed away by the very thing needed to make it flourish."Īnswer to Question SIX: "Every act of development necessarily involves an act of destruction."
"What a trade," Holloway writes on page 92. "The noise was deafening, as if herds of miniature beasts were crisscrossing at breakneck speed along the roof." The rain was so fierce that it was "threatening to break through the bricks" (p. "I was startled out of my thoughts by a clap of thunder that rattled the roof," Holloway writes (p. But the rains that arrive in Mali as the rainy season started are terrifying. In many countries, the rainy season would be a blessing after a long, hot dry spell.
The fierce storms that arrive in rainy season have a huge impact on the village and on the story that Holloway is telling. Holloway said she felt like she was "drowning in the smell of flesh, body fluids, and leftover food" - all made more aromatically spicy by the torrid head in the dry season.
6) said the building "was like an oven, baking all the secretions into a rank casserole" (p. Walking into that room on a day that was probably over 100 degrees Holloway (p. The heat is oppressive and because of that heat Holloway had to endure "an overpowering stench" in the birthing room.
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