Musungu Jim and the Great Chief TulokoPenguin Books Limited, 2000 - 375 pages Zambawi, a banana republic in sub-Saharan Africa, is on the verge of revolution. President Adini, dictator and eunuch, clings to power whilst his soldiers switch sides so often they don't know which uniform to wear. All in all, Zambawi is not the ideal location for student teacher Jim Tulloh to indulge in a spot of character building. Yet with the help of Musa, the local witchdoctor, some flatulent weed and headmaster, PK, Jim's days look set to be mellow in the extreme; until that is Jim is kidnapped from his bush school by the rebel Black Boot Gang. But it is when the Gangers invoke the spirit of Zambawi's Great Chief Tuloko that Jim's fate takes a really unexpected turn . . . |
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... young and rich and black in Queenstown . It was the combination that was the killer . Young and poor and black was fine : you were like everyone else , one of the crowd , unremarkable . Old and rich and black was fine . So you stood out ...
... young and rich and black in Queenstown . It was the combination that was the killer . Young and poor and black was fine : you were like everyone else , one of the crowd , unremarkable . Old and rich and black was fine . So you stood out ...
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... young black man was walking beside a young black woman . At first glance they looked like lovers . But then Digby - Stewart saw the gun that she pressed into the young man's temple . The High Commissioner wanted to say something . And ...
... young black man was walking beside a young black woman . At first glance they looked like lovers . But then Digby - Stewart saw the gun that she pressed into the young man's temple . The High Commissioner wanted to say something . And ...
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... young Queenstownian men drank so much beer and ate so much barbecued boka bird and smoked so much weed and had so much sex that they never quite recovered . In the following months these young men could be spotted lying in Queenstown's ...
... young Queenstownian men drank so much beer and ate so much barbecued boka bird and smoked so much weed and had so much sex that they never quite recovered . In the following months these young men could be spotted lying in Queenstown's ...
Contents
The Zamba by Edison Burrows | 1 |
How Jim Tulloh lost his innocence | 9 |
The rubber balls 17 | 17 |
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