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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- Authors:
- Kambalu, Samson
- Year Published:
- 2022
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Paperback
- ISBN:
- 9781914613180
- Publication Date:
- 25/08/2022
- Publisher:
- Duckworth Books
- Language:
- English
- SKU:
- 9781914613180