num_pages: 320
description: Charity Mupanga is the widowed owner of Harrods International Bar (and Nightspot)a favorite meeting place for the movers and shakers of Kibera. While she can handle most challengesfrom an erratic supply of Worcestershire sauce the secret ingredient in her cooking to the political tensions in East Africas most notorious slum and a cholera outbreak that follows the freak floods in the state of Ubuntusome threatening letters from London lawyers are beginning to overwhelm her. Well-meant but inept efforts to foil the lawyers by Edward Furniver a former fund manager who runs Kiberas co-operative bank bring Harrods International Bar to the brink of disaster and Charity close to despair. In the nick of time an accidental riot triggered by World Bank President Hardwick Hardwicke's visit to the slum coupled with some quick thinking by Titus Ntoto the 14-year-old leader of Kiberas toughest gang the Mboya Boys United Football Club help Charityand Harrodsto triumph in the end.
language: English
title: Last Orders at Harrods: An African Tale
publisher: Little, Brown Book Group