Ten Weeks In Africa

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A vivid gripping novel about corruption integrity & good intentions gone wrong set in an African country on the brink of civil war for fans of John le Carre Graham Greene & William Boyd. As Ed & Sarah Caines plane passes over the Ngozi hills & begins its descent into Kisuru Sarah is dazzled by the purity of unspoiled nature the perfect environment in which to raise their son. Ed meanwhile as Director of the Global Justice Alliance for East Africa looks forward to rolling up his sleeves & making a real difference in a country that seems to be developing fast. Below them in the sprawling Makera slum Stephen Odinga
- who has to find a way of making more money for his dying mother than they can earn through the family business selling fried bananas
- decides to try a more lucrative line of business. Meanwhile Joseph Kamunda a senior official in a government that for five years has been failing to deliver on its promise to end political corruption is feeling isolated & exposed while others around him covertly seek personal advantage out of International Aid programmes. & beyond the hills a rebel army seethes & waits poised to tip the country into civil war. Before he knows it the duplicity Ed thinks he has left behind in England will begin to infect his own family. Ten Weeks in Africa explores in urgent breathtaking prose the tensions between our ideals & our reality the deep rifts of cultural misunderstanding & the true cost of uninformed good intentions.