M, my older daughter who was serving in Mali with the Peace Corps until the coup, has rewritten and illustrated her entries at her own blog. Tubab translates as Frenchman, but is also used generically for white people.
Tubab Problems
June 11, 2012
By PAUL E. SCHINDLER JR. I am from Portland, Oregon, Beaumont ’66, Benson High ’70, MIT ’74. Some things are impossible to know, but it is impossible to know these things.
June 11, 2012
M, my older daughter who was serving in Mali with the Peace Corps until the coup, has rewritten and illustrated her entries at her own blog. Tubab translates as Frenchman, but is also used generically for white people.
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