Book description
Ferdinand Mlambo, the youngest boy ever to become senior kitchen
toto at State House, is in deep trouble. Disloyalty to Kuwisha's Life
President Ngwazi Nduka has not only cost him his prestigious job: the
sinister chief steward to the president, Lovemore Mboga, has
humiliated Mlambo by stripping him of his name. Word goes out:
henceforth, he will be known as Fatboy. But with the help of Titus
Ntoto, leader of the notorious Mboya Boys gang of teenage street
children, Mlambo recovers his name and his dignity. In this sequel to
his widely praised debut, "Last Orders at Harrods", Michael
Holman again combines the insights of someone brought up in Africa
with the experience of nearly 20 years as the "London Financial
Times'" Africa editor. With a sharp observant pen, he describes a
world of abandoned street children, corrupt politicians, disillusioned
journalists, well meaning aid workers, celebrity outsiders,
self-deceiving donors, and resilient residents of Kireba, Kuwisha's
worst slum - where the tough but maternal Mrs Charity Tangwenya
Mupanga, presides over the popular rendezvous, Harrods International
Bar (and Nightspot).
Michael Holman was brought up in Zimbabwe. He was Africa editor of the
London Financial Times from 1984 until 2002; between 1977 and 1984 he
was the Financial Times' Africa correspondent, based in Lusaka, Zambia.
