Don't Run Over a Snake's Tail Slowly

My name is Dennis Perry. During my first year of Peace Corps service in Benin. I survived a revolution participated in a land-grab and ethnic cleansing. In my second year of service I accepted an invitation to experience life as the old old Africans lived it. Besides my duties as an Animal Traction Volunteer to train and provide health care for thirty-five pairs of bulls I helped the villagers of Kolokonde Benin obtain a grant of $5000.00 to rebuild their market place. Finally in 1973 I sat in on a meeting between Benin agricultural officials and the Red Chinese.