It’s Our Turn to Eat. Michela Wrong

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Автор произведения Michela Wrong
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       MICHELA WRONG

       It's Our Turn to Eat

      The Story of a Kenyan Whistleblower

      

       Copyright

      Fourth Estate

      An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd. 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF

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      First published in Great Britain in 2009

      Copyright © Michela Wrong 2009

      Michela Wrong asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

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      Source ISBN: 9780007241965

      Ebook Edition © 2009 ISBN: 9780007325115 Version: 2017-08-22

      ‘We lived many lives in those whirling campaigns, never sparing ourselves: yet when we achieved and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to re-make in the likeness of the former world they knew. Youth could win, but had not learned to keep: and was pitiably weak against age. We stammered that we had worked for a new heaven and a new earth, and they thanked us kindly and made their peace.’

      T.E. LAWRENCE, Seven Pillars of Wisdom

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Epigraph

       Map

       Prologue

       Chapter 1 - The Big Man

       Chapter 2 - An Unexpected Guest

       Chapter 7 - The Call of the Tribe

       Chapter 8 - Breaking the Mould

       Chapter 9 - The Making of the Sheng Generation

       Chapter 10 - Everything Depends on the Boss

       Chapter 11 - Gorging Their Fill

       Chapter 12 - A Form of Mourning

       Chapter 13 - In Exile

       Chapter 14 - Spilling the Beans

       Chapter 15 - Backlash

       Chapter 16 - A Plaza Paradise

       Chapter 17 - It's Not Your Turn

       Epilogue

       Keep Reading

       Notes

       Glossary

       Index

       Acknowledgements

       Ebook Extra

       About the Author

       By the Same Author

       About the Publisher

       PROLOGUE

      It was early evening, that time when the traffic jams that clog the Kenyan capital of Nairobi's arteries for most of the working day reach their apogee.

      Down below, thousands