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Supper with the President

Ian Mathie author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Mosaique Press

Published:1st Oct '11

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West Africa in the 1970s was a volatile melange of old and new; of aspiration, corruption, power and influence. In its midst, Ian Mathie laboured in his role as a water engineer to help improve the lives of ordinary people. His work brought him in contact with presidents, kings, emperors, chiefs and a succession of extraordinary characters. Circumstances contrived to place him at dinners with four heads of state whose rule had immense impact, positive and negative, on their countries and on West and Central Africa: Mobutu of Zaire, Traore of Mali, Senghor of Senegal and Eyadema of Togo. In 'Supper with the President', he recalls the events and the insights they gave him, interweaving those experiences with true stories of other extraordinary brushes with sorcery, slavery, wildlife conservation, desert travel and a jail-break that could only happen in Africa.

Deliciously written, at times laugh-our-loud funny. - Wendy Reiss, author and editor Scores of fascinating adventures, projects, characters and extraordinary meetings in colonial Africa... amazing accounts of life in the forests. - Banbury Guardian Ian Mathie knows exactly how to stitch up a good story... simply the best of the relatively unknown writers. - The Bookbag

ISBN: 9781906852108

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm

Weight: 352g

252 pages