The Jive Talker

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The Jive Talker

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Author: Samson Kambalu

Type: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9781914613180

Date: 25th August, 2022

Publisher: SEPTEMBER

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  2. Art Monographs
  3. Biography: General
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'An African memoir unlike any other I have read. Filled with wonder, humour and hope. It is a magnificent achievement' Aminatta Forna, Sunday Telegraph 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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