wasted, then the narrators potential would be deflated in two ways. One by missing this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Regret haunts a person for the rest of your life. Also, the locals wanted him to go into agriculture. He would be doing farming and be using his body all-day and well it would be a waste of a mind that could do some much.Essentially the narrator meets the girl call Amina. The relationship kicks off to a great start. The narrator courts this girl in London. There is a general interest in literature and common themes. The relationship doesnt seem to work because of this commonness wears on the relationship and later breaks apart after eighteen years ago.An intimacy that turned insipid, dried up. Not for us the dregs of relationships, the last days of alternating care and hatred. I need a life on my own, she said. These words show the last reminisces of what a relationship should not become and the evidence a lack of love that has come between two people, as these two have become distant and had no reason to be together.The last parts of the book involve the man trying to get into the country, saying that he is a refugee. The secrecy and other espionage that occurs in this section show how the world of Tanzania has changed in the postcolonial period. A new, more suspicious nation has replaced the old one. The one group that catches the refugee does help him find his way to Canada in a confusing series of events.When the narrator returns to Tanzania [Uhuru Street} as it was affectionately called. He has found some changes to the area and some surprises, also. He sees stores and music that were once familiar, but now a distant memory as he has left and the world that he once knew was gone. When he does walk down the Uhuru Street, it is just a walk down memory lane for the narrator. The narrator also pays a visit to the schools. They have now implimented some books that would make an educator cringe. The o...
