NO FEAR OF THE EVIL EYE: THE RELIGION OF ENVY

[This is the sixth chapter of Part I: Envy of my forthcoming book NO FEAR OF THE EVIL EYE: Key to Freedom, Peace, and Prosperity. Previous sections and chapters can be accessed here. I will really appreciate any feedback you have.]
East of the Serengeti, there is a town called Moshi. It lies at the southern base of Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, the former German then British territory of Tanganyika. Some 50 miles away from Moshi is the town of Arusha, the traditional starting point for an East Africa safari (Swahili for journey) to such places as Manyara, Ngorongoro, and the Serengeti plain.
The way Africans get from Moshi to Arusha is by mini-bus or small van. The driver races madly round and round the town's central square beeping his horn and yelling, "Arusha! Arusha!" Only when it is physically impossible for there to be one more human body squeezed into his vehicle will he depart.
Such circumstances require you to establish a friendly relation with the person next to you, who is virtually sitting in your lap. On this particular occasion, I found myself next to a young fellow who spoke quite good English (Britain was mandated German East Africa by the League of Nations after World War I, and administered it until independence in 1962).
He was clearly intelligent and well-educated. Our conversation went like this (with his words in italics).
"You are from America?"
"Yes, from California."
"Oh, Hollywood, San Francisco. Where are you coming from just now?"
I thumbed towards the famous snow-clad caldera of Kilimanjaro suspended up in the sky to our right. "From Kibo." I looked over at the mountain. "Three days ago, I was standing up there, on the top with my guide and friend, Iringa. He is a Chagga from Marangu. Are you a Chagga? Do you live around here?"
"Yes. My home is in Moshi, but just now I am on school holiday so I go to see my friends in Arusha." "Where do you go to school?"
"For the past two years, I've been on scholarship to the University of Moscow in the Soviet Union."












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