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The Jive Talker: Or How to Get a British Passport

by Samson Kambalu - £12.99  September Publishing (2022)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781914613180 | ISBN 10: 191461318x

A uniquely vivid and wickedly funny memoir of growing up ambitious, creative and sometimes hungry in Malawi, by the award-winning conceptual artist. 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.

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