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It's our turn to eat : the story of a Kenyan whistle-blower / Michela Wrong.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Harper, c2009.Edition: 1st U.S. edDescription: xiv, 354 p. : ill., map ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780061346583 :
  • 0061346586
Other title:
  • It is our turn to eat
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.1/323092 B 22
  • 353.46/096762 22
LOC classification:
  • JQ2947.A56 C69 2009
Contents:
The big man -- The unexpected guest -- Starting afresh -- Mucking out the Augean stables -- Dazzled by the light -- Pulling the serpents tail -- The call of the tribe -- Breaking the mold -- The making of the sheng generation -- Everything depends on the boss -- Gorging their fill -- A form of mourning -- In exile -- Spilling the beans -- Backlash -- A plaza paradise -- Its not your turn.
Review: "In January 2003, Kenya - seen as the most stable country in Africa - was hailed as a model of democracy after the peaceful election of its new president, Mwai Kibaki. By appointing respected longtime reformer John Githongo as anticorruption czar, the new Kikuyu government signaled its determination to end the corrupt practices that had tainted the previous regime. Yet only two years later, Githongo himself was on the run, having discovered that the new administration was ruthlessly pillaging public funds." ""Under former President Moi, his Kalenjin tribesmen ate. Now it's our turn to eat," politicians and civil servants close to the president told Githongo. As a member of the government and the president's own Kikuyu tribe, Githongo was expected to cooperate. But he refused to be bound by ethnic loyalty. Githongo had secretly compiled evidence of official malfeasance and, at great personal risk, made the painful choice to go public. The result was Kenya's version of Watergate." "Michela Wrong's account of how a pillar of the establishment turned whistle-blower, becoming simultaneously one of the most hated and admired men in Kenya, grips like a political thriller. At the same time, by exploring the factors that continue to blight Africa - ethnic favoritism, government corruption, and the smug complacency of Western donor nations - Its Our Turn to Eat probes the very roots of the continent's predicament. It is a story that no one concerned with our global future can afford to miss."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-344) and index.

The big man -- The unexpected guest -- Starting afresh -- Mucking out the Augean stables -- Dazzled by the light -- Pulling the serpents tail -- The call of the tribe -- Breaking the mold -- The making of the sheng generation -- Everything depends on the boss -- Gorging their fill -- A form of mourning -- In exile -- Spilling the beans -- Backlash -- A plaza paradise -- Its not your turn.

"In January 2003, Kenya - seen as the most stable country in Africa - was hailed as a model of democracy after the peaceful election of its new president, Mwai Kibaki. By appointing respected longtime reformer John Githongo as anticorruption czar, the new Kikuyu government signaled its determination to end the corrupt practices that had tainted the previous regime. Yet only two years later, Githongo himself was on the run, having discovered that the new administration was ruthlessly pillaging public funds." ""Under former President Moi, his Kalenjin tribesmen ate. Now it's our turn to eat," politicians and civil servants close to the president told Githongo. As a member of the government and the president's own Kikuyu tribe, Githongo was expected to cooperate. But he refused to be bound by ethnic loyalty. Githongo had secretly compiled evidence of official malfeasance and, at great personal risk, made the painful choice to go public. The result was Kenya's version of Watergate." "Michela Wrong's account of how a pillar of the establishment turned whistle-blower, becoming simultaneously one of the most hated and admired men in Kenya, grips like a political thriller. At the same time, by exploring the factors that continue to blight Africa - ethnic favoritism, government corruption, and the smug complacency of Western donor nations - Its Our Turn to Eat probes the very roots of the continent's predicament. It is a story that no one concerned with our global future can afford to miss."--BOOK JACKET.

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