Exchange practices

In the novel, the Rhodesian community was torn between new European influences and traditional Rhodesian influences. There was a lot of skepticism deciphering the differences between “right” and “wrong” within the Rhodesian community, there did not seem to be a clear line of who felt which way. It seemed that the European settlers did not understand much about the African community and looked down upon many things they did not understand, such as when they saw Tambu selling some crops in a market and called it child labor. A majority of this came from the European settlers introducing new concepts and ideas that the newer generation grasped while the older generation did not. An example of this would be that the new generation valued education over farming and work, while the older generation did not see much value in an education at all, such as Tambu’s mother. Tambu greatly wanted to venture of into Britain and learn and be educated while her mother feared Britain and hated Tambu for leaving Rhodesia. It seemed that much of the older generation feared Britain and the outside world. While education was highly valued it seemed that nobody could ever achieve it.