After looking up certain reviews on this book, I read an article that looks at the point when Garrigan accepts his job as personal physician. The article gives two opinions from a white missionary in Africa and his Kenyan firend, they both agree Garrigan should not have taken the job, but each for different reasons. Both reasons make sense, and I believe the difference in them shows the different thinking of African people in general. The white man states that he should have denyed the job simply because of the temptations that it would inevitably provide him, the Kenyan, becuase Garrigan was a white outsider, and had absolutley no understanding of African people or they what he was getting himself into.