Only the Bible

A colleague of mine stayed in Morogoro for some months, and was desperate for a book to read. She visited each and every shop in the town counting no less than 240’000 souls, but could not find any other book than English beginners’ school booklets*. Then she changed her strategy, and asked all the Tanzanians she knew for a book. Finally, she asked her landlady for the only book in the house: a bible. So from this day on every evening she read a chapter from the bible. When she returned to Dar, what she was most interested in was to consult my book shelf!

*English is, beside Kiswahili, the second state language of Tanzania.