# French Lessons In Africa

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- Authors: [Peter Biddlecombe](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-biddlecombe)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2001-07-26

## Description

Having travelled across West Africa for over ten years, Peter Biddlecombe's often hilarious account of a long and lingering liaison dangereuse with the sixty per cent of the continent that is French-speaking is a highly readable, hugely entertaining introduction to the je ne sais quoi of French Africa. In countries such as Togo, Mali and Burkina Faso, Biddlecome encounters old-fashioned camel butchers, modern witch doctors who run mail-order companies, gold smugglers and counterfeiters who send their sons to Oxford. He also experiences a delicious foie gras of places: from eerie voodoo ceremonies in the old slave port of Ouidah to Italian ice-cream parlors in the middle of the Sahara desert. And Biddlecombe reveals not only Francophone Africa's politics, often bizarre business traditions and culture, but also provides a mass of practical advice on everything from how to eat a water-rat to talking your way through a road block in the middle of an attempted coup.

## Editions

### French Lessons In Africa

- Publisher: abacus
- ISBN: 978-03-4910-509-3
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2001-07-26
- Language: en_GB