Monique and the mango rains6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Monique shared her emotional life with Holloway, who in turn campaigned for her rights at work and raised funds for her struggling clinic. Holloway especially noted Monique's status as an underpaid female whose male family members routinely claimed much of her pay. These four characters and also brothers, by the names of Tiekoro, Siga, Naba, and Malobali are faced with a world changing around their beloved city of Bambara. With one of the highest rates of maternal death in the world, these Malian women sometimes had to work right up until and directly after giving birth and had no means of contraception. Yet Monique, barely educated, working without electricity, running water, ambulances or emergency rooms, was solely responsible for all births in her village, tending malnourished and overworked pregnant women in her makeshift birthing clinic. When Holloway (now a nonprofit development specialist) arrived in Nampossela in 1989, she was 22 Monique was only two years her senior. It centers on her close friendship with Monique, the village's overburdened midwife. ![]() I entered this book curious about childbirth in rural West Africa, and learned a great deal about gender relations as they shape the meaning of children, development resources, and. Summary: "This tender, revelatory memoir recalls the two years Holloway spent as an impressionable Peace Corps volunteer in the remote village of Nampossela in Mali, West Africa. The mango rains also symbolize Monique’s love and sacrifice. 'Monique and the Mango Rains is beautifully and frankly written, both an ethnography of Malian healthcare and a coming-of-age memoir of Peace Corps participation. ![]()
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