Book description
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 . . .
Patrick Neate is the author of five novels:
Musungu Jim and the
Great Chief Tuloko,
which won a Betty Trask Award,
Twelve Bar Blues,
which won the 2001 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award,
The London
Pigeon Wars,
City of Tiny Lights
and
Jerusalem.
His nonfiction includes
Where You're At
, which won the NBCC Award for Criticism in the USA.
