The Ultimate Safari | Summary

‘‘The Ultimate Safari’’ opens with the narrator’s cryptic and mysterious statement that tersely sets the tone of the story: ‘‘That night our mother went to the shop and she didn’t come back. Ever.’’ The narrator of the story, a young black Mozambican girl, never finds out what happened to her mother, or to her father, who had also left one day never to return. The presumption, however, is that both her parents are dead by the time her story unfolds; her people are at war, and her village has been beset by ‘‘bandits’’ that have left the villagers destitute and...

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