May Book Club: Malawi

Do you like books? Like to talk to other readers about books while sipping on warm beverages? Searching for your next great read? Come join us to read a book from one of the 54 countries in Africa each month.

We meet on the last Sunday of the month to read one member-selected book to discuss.

Meetings are like this:
Check-in by regular attendees and introduction of new attendees.
Information about the author.
Brief review of the book.
Questions and observations.
Interesting/inspiring quotes.
Final thoughts and ratings.

See past events to catch up on the previous 31 books we read.

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Book #32 is
The Jive Talker: Or How to Get a British Passport by Samson Kambalu

A uniquely vivid and wickedly funny memoir of growing up ambitious, creative and sometimes hungry in Malawi. With exuberant prose, a cast of extraordinary characters and a rebellious spirit, Samson Kambalu tells the story of how a little boy obsessed with fashion, football, Nietzsche and Michael Jackson won a free education at the Kamuzu Academy ('The Eton of Africa') and began his journey to art school and artistic success.

The son of a philosophising, hard-drinking, poorly paid hospital manager, Kambalu's award-winning conceptual work is shown in galleries across the world, and still evokes that childhood landscape of literary excitement, family chaos and music; post-colonial injustice, poverty and AIDS.

Happy reading and see you then.