Red Winds: A VSO in Tanzania

Red Winds is an account of Irma Upex-Huggins' time with the VSO in Tanzania, living and working in an environment of extreme poverty, and it charts her journey through the country and through illness and recovery from a serious accident. Red Winds is a combination of poetry and prose, letters from Africa.

Irma was born in Antigua in the West Indies, finished school in Nevis and came to live in England. But as a black woman now coming from England to Tanzania she has a sense of dislocation, '...