Daba's Travels from Ouadda to Bangui

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Title: Daba's Travels from Ouadda to Bangui
Author: [Makombo] Bamboté
Translator: John Buchanan-Brown
Illustrator: George Ford
Year: 1970
Publisher: Pantheon
Country: Central African Republic
174 pages 

This middle readers novel about a boy in the Central African Republic is a somewhat diluted bildungsroman, most interesting for its descriptions of the boy's daily life. While the village scenes are illuminating, the fluid and dynamic illustrations are its most charming and noteworthy element.