Just Another Mzungu Passing Through

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"I wish I could remember it the way I first saw it – through the fresh and innocent eyes I had then and not the cynical ones that I have now..." Kenya in 1996, Griff takes a job at a small, struggling school in Nairobi. How does a naïve and privileged mzungu fit in? El Nino floods, bulldozed slums, street justice and widespread corruption, it is nearly impossible to work out what the hell is going on… A fresh, down-to-earth perspective on Kenya and her people by debut novelist J.W. Bowen. We experience modern Africa in all its contradictions—its beauty, squalor, joy and heartbreak. Show more