Santa Claus In The Jungle

Santa Claus In The JungleOn The Day before Christmas--this was just a few years ago--in a dusty little dorp in upcountry Malawi, which is in Central Africa, a young man sloped down the main road, alone. The dorp's name was Rumpi and the young man's, Calvin Mullet. He was from Hudson, Massachusetts. The quaint raffia suitcase he lugged could have passed for a picnic hamper, but he was no picnicker.He had been dropped at the boma by a banana truck. The truck's dust cloud hung for a moment in the a...