Hello Me White Woman Come Save Trees?: A Memoir of Africa and Development Gone Wrong - Softcover

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HELLO ME WHITE WOMAN COME SAVE TREES? is an insider’s view of aid and international development gone wrong.
Tasked with revitalizing its moribund timber industry, when Jean first arrived in Gabon she knew nothing about the country or about wood and she was faced with the reality of life in one of the most corrupt countries on earth.
By the end of the year, she knew Gabon, she knew wood and she had experienced firsthand the maze of politics, connections and cronyism that doom so many development efforts.
At the same time as it examines the devastating effects of corruption on the life and soul of a country, HELLO ME WHITE WOMAN COME SAVE TREES? is also a personal memoir of a life-changing year, of misadventures with Gabonese boyfriends, colleagues and friends that took Jean from the middle of the equatorial rain-forest to the gleaming casinos of the capital city.

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