The Last Banana: Dancing with the Watu

by Shelby Tucker

The Last Banana began when the author visited his university friend Marios Ghikas, whose family farmed in Tanzania. Anticipating nationalization, Marios invited Tucker to visit again to help him spend 'the last banana' of his 'unremittable fortune', and Tucker returned in 1972. These were the first of 16 African trips spanning 43 years. There were 180 Greeks in Chaggaland, but Nyerere's policy of returning land to the watu people destroyed this community...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1906768218
• ISBN13: 9781906768218
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Stacey International Publishers
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.6" x 8.6"