Title: worthy but no pleasure to read
Product review: This is a revered classic about corruption in post colonial Kenya for which the author went to prison, and I don't presume to doubt its value to anyone studying the topic.However I found it unutterably turgid to read: gave up once, went back to it with renewed vigor, got to p. 170 and thought 'no, life's too short'.Perhaps it doesn't help that it's set in a culture with which I am so unfamiliar - it's peppered with (Swahili?) words which could do with a glossary.Not for me.
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