The Gunny SackBy: M. G. Vassanji Memory, Ji Bai would say, is this old sack here, this poor dear that nobody has any use for any more. As the novel begins, Salim Juma, in exile from Tanzania, opens up a gunny sack bequeathed to him by a beloved great aunt. Inside it he discovers the past his own familys history and the story of the Asian experience in East Africa. Its relics and artefacts bring with them the lives of Salims Indian great grandfather, Dhanji