Finding Mr Madini
- ISBN-10
- 0864864469
- ISBN-13
- 9780864864468
- Category
- Homelessness
- Pages
- 278
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- New Africa Books
- Author
- Jonathan Morgan
Description
An assemblage of the lives and stories of several homeless people. There's Valentine from Cameroon whose grandfather taught him how to catch mermaids; Pinky who was eight in the 1976 riots; Gert the horse thief who never attends a meeting but whose stories make a big impression on the group; Virginia the actress with the narrow bed; Patrick the cartoonist who is forced to eat live birds; Fresew the Ethiopian chemist; Steven the ex-boxer who can change the colour of a cow; Robert who explains how to remove tattoos with condensed milk; and Sipho the much-loved poet who lives in a drain under the city and who goes missing. This title is full of stories of struggle and triumph.
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