Asha’s Reviews > The Poisonwood Bible > Status Update

Poignant. "What if Americans and Belgians before them, hadn't tasted blood & money in Africa? if the Baptists hadn't taken upon themselves the religious conversion of the Congolese. If the world of white men had never touched the Congolese at all ?" What if? Perhaps, there'd be fewer extinct species? fewer hungry African children, no more blood diamonds, & just maybe an intact rain forest? Just maybe...