Speak Swahili, Dammit! (Ebook)
by James Penhaligon
42 Members (3.50)
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- Title
- Speak Swahili, Dammit! (Ebook)
- Author
- James Penhaligon
- Member
- Bill_Masom
- Publication
- Trevelyan Publishers Ltd (2013), Kindle Edition, 432 pages
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- Your library, To read, Ebooks
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This popular and well-reviewed book has now been revised with the assistance of several enthusiastic readers, former and current expatriates and Kenyan and Tanzanian friends.The captivating story recounts the humour and tragedy of the author's life as a young boy growing up in what was then colonial Tanganyika and Kenya, and the newly independent countries which emerged. It is a must-read for anyone interested in Africa before and after the Winds of Change swept across the continent to alter show more the lives of so many lucky enough to experience those times. Like many who were born and lived in Africa, the author's life was not the easy one people think colonial expatriates enjoyed, and he relates so vividly his own tragic experiences with hardship, danger and death. Many perils abounded from wild animals, venomous snakes and deadly tropical illnesses. Notwithstanding the ever-present black shadow of death and danger, was the natural instinct of kids to have fun, and the escapades and pleasure the author and his contemporaries created for themselves is related by Penhaligon with rib-aching humour. show lessTags
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- Original publication date
- 2010-08
- People/Characters
- James Penhaligon
- Important places
- Tanzania
- Dedication
- This book is dedicated to Ingrid, my dear wife and long-term companion, and to friends, relatives and East African compatriots, departed or still living, in Africa, and everywhere they have blown. May they, and we, always r... (show all)emember Africa in all its spectacular beauty, and return often to drink of her blessed waters.
- First words
- It's 1966.
Classifications
- Genres
- Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction, Travel
- DDC/MDS
- 967.803092 — History & geography History of Africa Central Africa and offshore islands Tanzania
- LCC
- DT442.5 .P464 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Africa History of Africa Eastern Africa Tanzania. Tanganyika. German East Africa
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- 42
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- 633,806
- Rating
- (3.50)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook
- ISBNs
- 4
- ASINs
- 2
