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From the inside of the front cover:

In the 1950s Barrie Kaye went to work as a Banana Planter in the Southern Cameroons (British Cameroons), a small country in West Africa sandwiched between Nigeria and the French Cameroons.

For part of the period he spent in that little-known and somewhat primitive country, he lived on a remote plantation where he was the only European and where he was responsible for the management of a 2,000 acre plantation, 400 employees and their dependants.

It was a unique existence, involving contact with armed smugglers, ju-ju men, witchdoctors and the problems associated with large-scale banana production.

This is not a serious treatise on bananas, but an immensely amusing account of the trials and tribulations of a young man faced with a variety of problems ranging from civil engineering to holding court over marital problems, from gold prospecting and hunting to high life dances.

The author manages to give a clear insight into both banana planting and life in a primitive environment which had not changed since the 19^th Century.

A book you will not be bored with.

Book illustrations (from original photographs taken by Barrie Kaye):

Wrapping Bananas on Harvest Day	Epi the Overseer with a backboy
Loco on Harvest Day	The Wharf at Boa

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