When student teacher Jim Tulloh arrives in Zambawi, he doesn't realise he's about to be sucked into the rebirth of a nation ...
Zambawi, a banana republic in sub-Saharan Africa, is on the verge of a revolution. President Adini, dictator and eunuch, desperately clings to power and his prosthetic testicles. But his right-hand man is only interested in poetry and the past, his son is obsessed with girls not guerrillas, and the state army switch sides so often they don't know which uniform to wear.
Meanwhile, the mellow pattern of Jim's days - smoking flatulent weed with Musa, a Rastafarian witchdoctor, and PK the headmaster - is disturbed when Jim is kidnapped from his bush school by the rebel Black Boot Gang. And when the Gangers invoke the spirit of Zambawi's Great Chief Tuloko, Jim's fate takes an unexpected twist in an awe-inspiring collision of myth and the moment.
Patrick Neate's first novel is an idiosyncratic tale of coups, colonialism and coming of age. And rubber balls. And gulu gulu. And magic ...
Zambawi, a banana republic in sub-Saharan Africa, is on the verge of a revolution. President Adini, dictator and eunuch, desperately clings to power and his prosthetic testicles. But his right-hand man is only interested in poetry and the past, his son is obsessed with girls not guerrillas, and the state army switch sides so often they don't know which uniform to wear.
Meanwhile, the mellow pattern of Jim's days - smoking flatulent weed with Musa, a Rastafarian witchdoctor, and PK the headmaster - is disturbed when Jim is kidnapped from his bush school by the rebel Black Boot Gang. And when the Gangers invoke the spirit of Zambawi's Great Chief Tuloko, Jim's fate takes an unexpected twist in an awe-inspiring collision of myth and the moment.
Patrick Neate's first novel is an idiosyncratic tale of coups, colonialism and coming of age. And rubber balls. And gulu gulu. And magic ...
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Paperback Editions
April 2000 : Paperback
| Title: Musungu Jim and the Great Chief Tuloko Author(s): Patrick Neate ISBN: 0-14-029216-0 / 978-0-14-029216-9 (UK edition) Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
March 2000 : Paperback
| Title: Musungu Jim and the Great Chief Tuloko Author(s): Patrick Neate ISBN: 0-14-028655-1 / 978-0-14-028655-7 (UK edition) Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Other Editions
March 2000 : Unknown
| Title: Musungo Jim and the Great Chief Tuluko Author(s): Patrick Neate ISBN: 0-670-88790-0 / 978-0-670-88790-3 (USA, AU, or UK edition) Publisher: Viking Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
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