num_pages: 288
description: Three thousand miles by bicycle through Africa. In January 1992, Dervla Murphy prescribed herself several carefree months and embarked on a cycle tour (pedaling and pushing) from Kenya to Zimbabwe via Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia on the cyclist’s equivalent of a Rolls Royce called Lear. Before long, she realized that for travelers who wish to remain stress-free, Africa is the wrong continent. Inevitably she was caught up in the harrowing problems of the peoples she met; the devastating effects of AIDS (ukimwi is Swahili for AIDS), drought and economic collapse; skepticism about Western “aid schemes”; and corruption and incompetence, both white and black.
language: English
title: The Ukimwi Road: From Kenya to Zimbabwe
titlecomplete: The Ukimwi Road: From Kenya to Zimbabwe
genres: Zambia, Malawi, Adventure, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Uganda, Travel, Africa, Nonfiction, Tanzania
ratings_count: 284
publisher: Overlook Books