Speak Swahili Dammit - Softcover

James Penhaligon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0956890210 ISBN 13: 9780956890214

Publisher: Trevelyan Publishers Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

Speak Swahili, Dammit! This popular and well-reviewed book has now been revised with the assistance of several enthusiastic readers, former and current expatriates and Kenyan and Tanzanian friends.The captivating story recounts the humour and tragedy of the author's life as a young boy growing up in what was then colonial Tanganyika and Kenya, and the newly independent countries which emerged. It is a must-read for anyo... Full description

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About the Author

James Penhaligon is a multi-lingual consultant psychiatrist in the United Kingdom. Born to Cornish parents, and raised deep in the bush in Tanganyika, later to emerge as Tanzania, he remains a fluent Swahili speaker, and has never been able to escape his early influences, or the gaze it gave him on life and the world. Despite having left Africa, and carving himself a successful career in medicine, and later psychiatry, James has always had a fascinating East African story waiting to be told, and, finally, he has written it. The result is "Speak Swhahil, Dammit !"

Edition details

• Publisher: Trevelyan Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0956890210
• ISBN 13: 9780956890214
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 432