Stories from An African Boy’s Childhood
To Alficene, making money was an everyday activity and the means to make it was the only challenge. He and his friends used to climb up fruit trees and spread gummy substances gathered from another tree, onto its most fruit filled limbs. Then they would climb down, go make more money somewhere else and return later that day to catch the beautiful parrots stuck in the gum. They sold the parrots to Portuguese soldiers who liked exotic birds as pets. The Portuguese had colonized their nation and... Sign in to see full entry.