MICHELA WRONG
It's Our Turn to Eat
The Story of a Kenyan Whistleblower
Fourth Estate
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First published in Great Britain in 2009
Copyright © Michela Wrong 2009
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Source ISBN: 9780007241965
Ebook Edition © 2009 ISBN: 9780007325115 Version: 2017-08-22
‘We lived many lives in those whirling campaigns, never sparing ourselves: yet when we achieved and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to re-make in the likeness of the former world they knew. Youth could win, but had not learned to keep: and was pitiably weak against age. We stammered that we had worked for a new heaven and a new earth, and they thanked us kindly and made their peace.’
T.E. LAWRENCE, Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Contents
Chapter 2 - An Unexpected Guest
Chapter 4 - Mucking out the Augean Stables
Chapter 5 - Dazzled by the Light
Chapter 6 - Pulling the Serpent's Tail
Chapter 7 - The Call of the Tribe
Chapter 8 - Breaking the Mould
Chapter 9 - The Making of the Sheng Generation
Chapter 10 - Everything Depends on the Boss
Chapter 11 - Gorging Their Fill
Chapter 12 - A Form of Mourning
Chapter 14 - Spilling the Beans
Chapter 17 - It's Not Your Turn
It was early evening, that time when the traffic jams that clog the Kenyan capital of Nairobi's arteries for most of the working day reach their apogee.
Down below, thousands