Véronique Tadjo Archive In the Company of Men’s Long View of History Author: Rachael Nevins | Feb222021 Categories: Critical Essays No comments To take the long view of history is to find company with our ancestors. In Véronique Tadjo’s 2017 novel, available today in English, it is “Baobab, the first tree, the everlasting tree, the totem tree” that sees humanity from this perspective.