The Brown Huts of Home Paperback -

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The hut is one of the prevailing objects that has remained with humanity ever since the ancient times. The book is about the brown huts found in Africa. The huts are spaces of nurturing, safety and comfort zones curved out for the enjoyment of life. They are points of dignity, symbols of trust and faith in the outcome of hard work. The huts are the standard on which villages spread out in profusion. In the story we find the characters giving as much as taking from life. The huts are a launch pad from which we see people going on with their tasks and returning as if the huts were the source of energy. Indeed there is something magical, maternal, paternal and social where the hut is concerned. In reading the brown huts of home one is not spared the temptation to join in, get hold of the skein and unravel the links of child birth, growth, relations, development, social interaction and duty against the back drop of nativity. This is the core of the story and the narrator lays bare her life, which is intertwined with that of the home and village. When one reads the story, the sense of being taken back in time cannot be missed. That the brown huts where an ubiquitous object that greeted visitors of the long gone centuries is not missed. That these same brown huts were the birth places and play places for many a great and respected persons can be fathomed in the story. In telling this story, the narrator draws our attention to how simple and basic life needs to first be fulfilled in order for families, communities and societies to thrive. Short of this the very families, communities and societies that make up the raw materials of a civilization are bound to die and in the process the essence of civilization itself.

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