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In summary: Out. Of. Touch. Like a Dorothy who crash-lands in Oz and then deems herself an authority on the new land while describing what she sees without ever setting foot out of the house, Blake claims a knowledge of Togo that is superficial and tinged with unintentional racism.Please, please take my advice and read The Village of Waiting by George Packer if you want to learn anything about the realities of everyday Togolese life and culture or the actual history of the country. Packers memoir weaves together his immersion in Togolese life with astute observations about the complexity of development in Togo and Africa, in the context of colonial history in the country and throughout the continent.Letters from Togo, in contrast, portrays the life of an American whose perspective is insulated by and contained within the Western ex-patriot community. This in and of itself is an interesting world, but what makes the book cringe-inducing is Blakes continual misinterpretation of her privilege and cultural tourism as an accurate representation of Togolese life. She comes close to recognizing the bias of her perspective with her parrot-like repetition of an awareness that there are haves and have-nots, but then veers away with laughable conclusions like Travel in Togo is easy (Yes, for a white American who buys a Honda Civic in her first week there!) and ...the African women are older and more independent than the typical American students. (She then goes on to identify independent as being tied down to a husband and children.)This book is painfully self-unaware. Blake has a superficial understanding of politics and the hierarchy how things work in Togo. She tells the story of Dictator-President Étienne Eyadéma by relating the text of a piece of propaganda, a childrens book, published by the party. Her analysis of history goes no further, seeks no other sources. This is not the only area where she miserably fails to delve. She never learns a local language, she never really gets to know her Togolese friends. Maybe the wealth divide prevents this to an extent, but her unfortunate mistake is not really comprehending the extent of this, and its implications. She fancies herself a resident of Lome, and says as much, expressing offense and bafflement that she would be perceived as a tourist.Quotes follow with more examples of her infuriating lack of cultural and general awareness...respectively: inability to understand the lifelong pervasiveness of cultural socialization, speaking on behalf of Togolese colleagues, assumed cultural supremacy (my way is right and better, Africa is backwards), and racist terminology/value judgements:Because she spent nine years in the U.S., I tend no to make the cultural adjustments when talking with Elise that I do with most other people. I figure shell know what I mean. But I keep being surprised at how differently we understand things. (p 104)Rather than teach an almost certainly controversial book, I did what (I say) any Togolese professor would have done, ordered a collection of short stories. (p.102, parenthesis hers, not mine)Getting access to information is a challenge, So it seemed like a sudden dawn of rationality when the stationery store opened in the commercial center a few weeks ago. (p 94)The temple of the python was a gyp. (111)In the forward, Albert E. Stone compares Letters in Togo to a 1920s travel memoir African Apprenticeship by Margery Perham. He says, Blake has confronted and discarded the racism, snobbery, and chauvinism which Perham so artlessly voices as concomitants of her fascination with and love of Africa.... I seemed to feel the immensity of the problem they represented and the absurdity of my attempting to understand it, she [Perham] confesses with a trepidation Blake never feels. Although Perhams racism and elitism seem to be more outwardly obvious, she also struggles with her own irrelevance. The forward is right to point out that Blake doesnt seems to struggle with the incongruousness of her presence and the relevance or sustainability of her work. She is merely there to teach for a year and record the sights and sounds, diary-like. It would be a better book if she had grappled with her context in a way that showed she understood it.
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