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Item specifics
- Condition
- Title
- It's Our Turn to Eat
- ISBN
- 0007241968
- EAN
- 9780007241965
- Binding
- Paperback / softback
- Date of Publication
- 20090219
- Publication Name
- N/A
- Release Title
- It's Our Turn to Eat
- Artist
- Wrong, Michela
- Brand
- N/A
- Colour
- N/A
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- It's Our Turn to Eat
- Item Height
- 234mm
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Topic
- Politics
- Item Width
- 153mm
- Item Weight
- 475g
- Number of Pages
- 400 Pages
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A gripping account of both an individual caught on the horns of an excruciating moral dilemma and a continent at a turning point. When Michela Wrong's Kenyan friend John Githongo appeared one cold February morning on the doorstep of her London flat, carrying a small mountain of luggage and four trilling mobile phones he seemed determined to ignore, it was clear something had gone very wrong in a country regarded until then as one of Africa's few budding success stories. Two years earlier, in the wave of euphoria that followed the election defeat of long-serving President Daniel arap Moi, John had been appointed Kenya's new anti-corruption czar. In choosing this giant of a man with a booming laugh, respected as a longstanding anti-corruption crusader, the new government was signalling to both its own public and the world at large that it was set on ending the practices that had made Kenya an international by-word for sleaze. Now John was on the run, having realised that the new administration, far from breaking with the past, was using near-identical techniques to pilfer public funds. John's tale, which has all the elements of the political thriller, is the story of how a brave man came to make a lonely decision with huge ramifications. But his story transcends the personal, touching as it does on the cultural, historical and social themes that lie at the heart of the continent's continuing crisis. Tracking this story of an African whistleblower who started out as a pillar of the establishment, Michela Wrong seeks answers to the questions that have puzzled outsiders for decades. What is it about African society that makes corruption so hard to eradicate, so sweeping in its scope, so destructive in its impact? Why have so many African presidents found it so easy to reduce all political discussion to the self-serving calculation of which tribe gets to eat ? And at what stage will Africans start placing the wider interests of their nation ahead of the narrow interests of their tribe?
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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-13
9780007241965
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Product Key Features
Book Title
It's Our Turn to Eat
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Politics
Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
234mm
Item Width
153mm
Item Weight
475g
Additional Product Features
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United Kingdom
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