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'The style is engaging, the characters lively, and the end result is a superb novel born of years of engagement with Africa' --Alexander McCall Smith reviewing 'Last Orders at Harrods'
'Holman writes some of the most insightful novels about Africa today' --BBC Radio 4
'If Precious Ramotswe is the hearbeat of Gaborone, her kindred spirit in Nairobi is Charity Mupanga' --Richard E Grant
'Holman writes some of the most insightful novels about Africa today' --BBC Radio 4
'If Precious Ramotswe is the hearbeat of Gaborone, her kindred spirit in Nairobi is Charity Mupanga' --Richard E Grant
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An ambitious, fresh-faced aid worker from England on his first visit to Africa has lost his travelling companion; a vintage radio mysteriously disappears; and sugar is being stolen at an alarming rate from Harrods International Bar (and Nightspot), the popular meeting place in Kibera, East Africa's largest and most vibrant slum. But the troubles of Charity Mupanga, Harrods's Owner, are only just beginning: Kirbera's shanties, along with the bar, will be cleared to make way for low-cost housing funded by Western aid. In 'Dizzy Worms', the final novel in the satirical Kuwisha trilogy, Michael Holman draws an affectionate portrait of a region beset by the machinations of local politicians and the attentions of diplomats, foreign donors, aid workers, and journalists. Will Charity, social entrepreneur and surrogate mother to an army of street children, survive so many good intentions? Or will her courage, ingenuity and good humour give her the strength triumph in the end.
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Dizzy Worms is the third of the fun packed and thought provoking Harrods trilogy of stories set on the edge of the largest slum in Africa; scarcely disguised as Kibera on the outskirts of Nairobi. Michael Holman clearly understands the African psyche which is so delightfully beguiling and driven by the need to make enough by fair means or foul to obtain his next meal.
This trilogy will take you into the hearts and minds of Africa and underline the dichotomy between the naivity of the Aid Workers and other NGOs on one side and the guile of local inhabitants on the other.
An absolutely delightful and highly amusing trilogy which leaves you begging for more.
This trilogy will take you into the hearts and minds of Africa and underline the dichotomy between the naivity of the Aid Workers and other NGOs on one side and the guile of local inhabitants on the other.
An absolutely delightful and highly amusing trilogy which leaves you begging for more.
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A great read - things serious captured in wicked humour, and the jargon of the Aid business played out to the delusional end of its game. Dizzy Worms is saturated in the experiences and observations gained through years living in and covering history as it unfolds across Africa. A huge privilege for the reader. For outsiders from the overdeveloped world, such a local point of view is hard to reach. Africans are confidently assumed to be a problem, which is the question one of the African characters asks himself at the end of the book: "How does it feel to be the problem?" Great satire here at the expense of white man's flawed attempts to disguise his sense guilt and superiority in presiding over the legacies of colonialism and the culture of Aid. Likewise at the expense of the wiley locals who know just what the deal is. All the more poignant as the world's leaders contemplate Millenium Goals this week, and dream the dream of eradicating poverty!
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