{"product_id":"9781914613180","title":"The Jive Talker : Or How to Get a British Passport by Samson Kambalu","description":"An African memoir unlike any other I have read. Filled with wonder, humour and hope. It is a magnificent achievement' Aminatta Forna, Sunday TelegraphA 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.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56309558509941,"sku":"9781914613180","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781914613180.jpg?v=1762812336","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781914613180","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}