Francis is the driver and guide for Barack and Auma’s safari. His wife and children cultivate corn and coffee, and he’d rather farm than work for a travel agency. He’s open about how government corruption makes farming an untenable job for him, and he believes that he needs to speak out in the hope that something might change.
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Francis Character Timeline in Dreams from My Father
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Chapter 17
...days, but he convinces Auma to go with him on a safari. A driver named Francis takes them and several others out into the countryside. Barack thinks about Zeituni’s advice to...
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Francis stops the van and picks up his young teenage niece, Elizabeth. Barack and Auma greet...
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On the other side of a rise, they reach the savannah. Francis drives the van slowly through a herd of wildebeest, and Barack notices both Auma and...
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...happens to a person when they die. The Masai smile; they don’t believe anything happens. Francis, who’s Christian, argues with an Italian man who left the church about whether Christianity brought...
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