Diaries of a Dead African
Publisher: Villagerhouse
Published: April 2, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9789782190031
Subjects: Modern fiction
First sentence: When I woke this morning I was sweating like a slave on the farm.
Description: Diaries of a Dead African explores its life-threatening themes with native humour. Meme Jumai and his two sons - Abel (failed writer) and Calamatus (aspiring conman) - document the final days of their desperate struggle to retain the vanishing shreds  of their dignity. 

At last, Abel's fondest dreams were coming true. Yet, his father had died at 50 and his brother at 25. How to outlive them both - without fleeing the very opportunities he had craved all his life/