There’s a specific genre of book which keeps getting published which tends to unwind when given even the slightest bit of scrutiny: the brave memoir of a Westerner who spent some dangerous but formative time in Africa and came out of the ordeal spiritually renewed and strengthened.
Zambia in 1999 according to #LintonLies;
?Monsoons
?Civil War
?Rebels
?JunglesI’ve been in the wrong Zambia all my life????
— Bornface (@Bfacemwape) July 5, 2016
Taking care of Zimba, while dodging Rebels,& wildlife close calls in Africa’s darkest jungles of Zambia. #LintonLies pic.twitter.com/iSDs0JO9x1
— Lusé Fiasco (@Skip_toMyLu) July 4, 2016
Y’all, I legit can’t stop laughing. They even took the drag to Amazon!!! ???????? #LintonLies pic.twitter.com/OEW1oqBtFL
— Brittany Packnett?? (@MsPackyetti) July 4, 2016
Dear Louise – @louiseLinton, we are hunting down the lions, elephants, crocodiles and snakes that spared your life. Unacceptable #LintonLies
— Muchemwa Sichone (@WriteRevolt) July 4, 2016
@TeleWonderWomen “armed rebels from the Congolese war”? In Zambia? This has never even made our local news.
— Maambo (@TwentyKwacha) July 4, 2016
@TeleWonderWomen “the dense jungle canopy above me”? Zambia has savanna grasslands, not dense jungle. But i guess “English girl experience”.
— Maambo (@TwentyKwacha) July 4, 2016
“I went to Africa and left an orphaned sick child for dead but the real Africa was the friends I made along the way” pic.twitter.com/iD9Pcm8TVb
— christian (@christianmccrea) July 5, 2016