Dark Continent my Black ArsePenguin Random House South Africa, 2011 M03 28 - 224 pages In 2003 Sihle Khumalo decided to give up a lucrative job and a comfortable life style in Durban and to celebrate his 30th birthday by crossing the continent from south to north. Celebrating life with gusto and in inimitable style, he describes a journey fraught with discomfort, mishap, ecstasy, disillusionment, discovery and astonishing human encounters. A journey that would be acceptable madness in a white man is regarded by the author’s fellow Africans as an extraordinary and inexplicable expenditure of time and money. Newly conscious of language barriers and regional difference in a continent still unexplored by the majority of Africans, the author presents a strikingly original and highly enjoyable account of a unique adventure. Each chapter is prefaced by a description of the ‘father of the nation’ of the country in question and ends with a hilarious ‘important tip’. |
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Kaundas Zambia | |
Bandas Malawi | |
Nyereres Tanzania | |
Kenyattas Kenya | |
Haile Selassies Ethiopia | |
Fatherless Sudan | |
Nassers Egypt | |
Looking back | |
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