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On the Edge of the Primeval Forest

When read with contemporary eyes, Albert Schweitzer’s book, subtitled “Experiences and Observations of a Doctor in Equatorial Africa,” is a disconcerting mix of startling racism and yet still pertinent commentary on African suffering. Schweitzer, a Christian missionary, physician, philosopher, and musician who qualified in medicine at the age of 38, funded his first trip to the Ogowe (or Ogooue) River with organ recitals and a book on Bach. The description of trying to land a piano (“built for the tropics”) and 70 cases by dugout canoe is both surreal and understated. His wife was a nurse and their approach to medicine was cutting edge scientific (they were intrigued by sleeping sickness trypanosomes in the blood), hygienic (Mrs Schweitzer washes a lot of bandages), …