Jive Talker Or, How to Get a British Passport

Name: Jive Talker Or, How to Get a British Passport
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ISBN: 9780099512387

ISBN-10: 0099512386

ISBN-13: 9780099512387

Edition: N/A

Authors: Samson Kambalu

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"Samson Kambalu's father wore three-piece, London-made suits from the Sixties. He'd dreamt of being a doctor but settled for hospital administration and a peripatetic lifestyle with his ever expanding family in tow. he is the 'Jive Talker' of this memoir - a man of thwarted ambition, boundless optimism and manic philosophising. He died of AIDS in 1995, bequeathing his son 'the Diptych' - an electric library of science, philosophy and English-language classics - a passion for words and a boundless imagination." "In this book, Samson Kambalu writes of his childhood in Malawi, a country few are able to pinpoint on a map. This is a country in which a young boy obsessed with books, girls,…

Book details

List price: $7.99
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Language: English

Samson Kambalu was born in Malawi in 1975. He holds degrees in fine art and ethnomusicology and is the recipient of several awards for his work Holy Ball Exercises and Exorcisms. He lives and works in London, England.

The Jive Talker	p. 1
Native	p. 7
Kasungu	p. 15
Mulanje	p. 25
Blantyre	p. 33
Nkhota-Kota	p. 67
Arthur's Nuclear Bunker	p. 107
Mulanje II	p. 145
Kamuzu Academy	p. 177
Sisero	p. 229
Lilongwe	p. 259
Johannesburg	p. 275
Zomba	p. 295
Europe	p. 315
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