Meet the characters
Bwana / Jungle Doctor (Dr Paul White)
Bwana (Swahili for sir) is the title used for Dr Paul White in the Jungle Doctor series. He is the narrator and it primarily through his eyes that we experience the events unfold in the stories. Bwana is the doctor based at Mvumi Hospital and through the assistance of his African colleagues helps to bring both healing as well as the message of Christ to his patients.
Daudi (Dan Mbogoni)
Daudi is the Bwana's chief medical assistant, helping Jungle Doctor not only with medical procedures, but to also understand the African way of life. He is instrumental in introducing Bwana to the Jungle Fables which Dr White subsequently uses to illustrate Biblical concepts to his audiences.
Sechelela
Sechelela means joyfulness. She features strongly in the stories as a grand matriarch of Mvumi Hospital and is instrumental in bridging the gap between the primitive thinking of the old ways and days, and the new impact of modern medicine, helping Bwana (the Jungle Doctor) to understand African ways and language. Sechelela started to help in the dispensary of Mvumi Hospital as a young widow during the Great War, and both her daughter and grand-daughter have been nurses in the hospital. Although her life has been threatened both by violence and witchcraft she continued to show a tremendous zeal for God and a talent for expressing it.
Simba
Simba (Swahili for lion) is the name that is given to the hunter who first appears in the book Jungle Doctor Meets a Lion. Injured in the encounter with a lion, Simba is brought to the hospital where a blood transfusion saves his life. He later gives his life to the Lord and marries Perisi, the lady who saved his life.
Perisi
Perisi is a nurse and teacher who works in Mvumi Hospital. After much trial she marries the man she saved (Simba) and together they have a premature son (Yohana) who grows up to work in the medical service of Tanzania.
