![]() ![]() ![]() When he returns he is healthy and has been converted to Christianity. A young boy named Kamante comes to her with sores on his legs, and she sends him to a local charity hospital. The narrator teaches at a school for the natives that she established, and every morning she acts as a nurse, offering basic medical services to the tribespeople. The narrator, who never expressly names herself, informs the reader that she is Danish. In exchange for the right to live on the land, the tribespeople labor in the fields. The plantation is very high in altitude, and only a small portion of the land is used to grow coffee the rest is left in its natural state or used by the Kikuyu tribe as living space. The memoir begins with Blixen describing the African coffee plantation she lived on, located in what is today Kenya. ![]() Utilizing a nonlinear approach, Blixen explores the fading years of the British colonial empire in Africa in a somber and nostalgic tone. Out of Africa is a memoir by Karen Blixen that was published in 1937 under the pseudonym Isak Dinesen. ![]()
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