What is the setting of Mating by Norman Rush?

Setting is often tied to the emotional tone of a story and Africa provides a dramatic, expansive, dangerous, beautiful, and compelling natural background for a relationship between the narrator and Nelson Denoon that evokes many of the same adjectives. The narrator specifically alludes to the way the "feel" of Africa has a specific effect on the behavior of those who live or visit there at the beginning of the book. The country is just "so much" that it is hard to take in and people seem to become greedier and more sensual driven by a sense of wanting more.