Whao! Jesus! Just come down on earth and see this! NUKA 02/08/00 Samson Kambalu's father wore smart 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 extraordinary memoir - a man of thwarted ambition, boundless optimism and manic philosophising. He died of AIDS in 1995, bequeathing his son 'the Diptych' - an eclectic library of science, philosophy and English ...
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Whao! Jesus! Just come down on earth and see this! NUKA 02/08/00 Samson Kambalu's father wore smart 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 extraordinary memoir - a man of thwarted ambition, boundless optimism and manic philosophising. He died of AIDS in 1995, bequeathing his son 'the Diptych' - an eclectic library of science, philosophy and English-language classics - a passion for words and a boundless imagination.In this utterly original, often subversive book, Samson Kambalu writes of his childhood in a country few are able to pinpoint on a map. As the family moves from feast to real poverty and deprivation, and back to plenty again, depending on their father's professional fortunes, we are introduced to life in a country in which no dissent is tolerated, where political opponents are 'disappeared' and a portrait of Life President Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda is always guaranteed to be watching. But this is also a country in which a young boy obsessed with books, girls, fashion, football and Michael Jackson wins a free education at the Kamuzu Academy ('The Eton of Africa') and grows up to be one of England's most promising young conceptual artists. With dazzling prose, wicked humour and not a little bit of artistic licence, "The Jive Talker" opens the door to an Africa that is rarely written about.
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