Water and Witchcraft - Three Years in Malawi

by T. Mullen

Overview

Water and Witchcraft recalls the travails and triumphs of providing drinking water to villagers in rural Malawi. In an African land where little goes as planned, gracious locals and quirky foreigners pit their wits against witchcraft, sickness and questionable managers to improve the lives of remote families. The results are rich and unusual. This story recalls the author's years spent working throughout Malawi. For more information about T. Mullen's books check out www.RoundwoodPress.com.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016718118
Publisher:	Roundwood Press
Publication date:	04/03/2013
Series:	African Raindrop Series , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

T. Mullen was born in sunny St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and then moved to the suburbs north of Chicago, where he lived until he was seven. His family then moved to Ireland, which became home base for the next eighteen years.

He studied architectural and civil engineering as well as business administration and spent fifteen years working outside the U.S. as a consultant regarding water resource and environmental projects in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America.

Spending half his life in the U.S. and half outside influenced the topics Mullen writes about - including travel, history, and cultural clashes.

He has written several magazine articles related to environmental issues and has also written a few books, including Wine and Work - People Loving Life, as well as Rivers of Change - Trailing the Waterways of Lewis and Clark.

For more about T.Mullen and his books, check out www.RoundwoodPress.com.

Editorial Reviews

A delightful read! Tom has managed to capture the spirit and culture of this little impoverished nation as it was in the early nineties. Each chapter contains thought provoking insights into what it is like to immersed in a culture where you are a 'volunteer'; little more than a peer of the Malawians who are relentlessly making their way through life, while at the same time dealing with the international aid donors and their western view of what things should be.

Amazon.com - Jim Conallen

I served in the Peace Corps in Malawi. Tom Mullen has done an incredible job of capturing all aspects of that experience; the beauty, the warmth and graciousness of the Malawians, the incredible challenges, frustrations, and spirit of what is was like to live and learn in this beautiful, flawed, and impoverished, place.

Tom recounts his experience as a young engineer who has to grapple with some incredibly difficult design issues and fatal flaws of his assigned project. His task is

Amazon.com - N. Usher

I really enjoyed this book about the Peace Corps in Malawi. I learned a lot and it was fun to read!

Amazon.com - Lisa Hazard

This is a great book - I've been recommending it to everyone, interested in Africa or not!
What a story, and the characters are bigger than life, from Gondwe who excels in the "art of sideline income" to Alabama Dave, to the poignancy of the villagers who were NOT evicted from their homes, to details about how work in Africa works. And how it doesn't. It mentions the hard parts about living in Africa, without dwelling too long on them.

Amazon.com - Patricia Rempen