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Under Nelson Mandela Boulevard: Life Among the Stowaways by [Sean Christie]

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Beneath the Nelson Mandela Boulevard flyover on Cape Town’s foreshore live a community of stowaways, young Tanzanian men from the slums of Dar es Salaam. When journalist Sean Christie meets Adam Bashili, he comes to know the extraordinary world of the Beachboys, a multi-port, fourth-generation subculture that lives to stow away and stows away to survive. But as Sean starts to accompany the Beachboys on trips around their everyday Cape Town, he becomes more than a casual observer, serving as sometime moneylender, driver, confidant and scribe, and eventually joining Adam on an unprecedented tour of Dar es Salaam’s underworld and a reckless run down Africa’s east coast. Under Nelson Mandela Boulevard remaps both city and continent, introducing us to the places and people we so frequently overlook.

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Jonathan Ball
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September 1, 2016
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ASIN : B01KY6QHX8
Publisher : Jonathan Ball (September 1, 2016)
Publication date : September 1, 2016
Language : English
File size : 10888 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
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Print length : 258 pages
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Best Sellers Rank: #1,944,848 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #676 in History of Southern Africa
- #684 in Southern Africa History
- #785 in Poverty Studies

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tali

Incredible book

Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2017

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Christie spent years building close, often difficult, and deeply personal relationships with a community of Tanzanian stowaways living in Cape Town. He also spent time in Tanzania with his subjects, traveling with them overland back to South Africa, at no small risk to his own safety. Through his incredible access and compelling writing the details of their lives, how they came to be where/who they are and the logic of the world in which they operate are revealed. Many touching, entertaining, tragic, but often humorous stories are beautifully strung together so the reader feels like they have a personal connection to the characters but also a broader understanding of the historical and structural forces that shape them. Written with frankness, humility and insight.

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Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2016

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Beautifully written and researched.

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JB Davies

Extraordinary genre-defying nonfiction

Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2016

Written with enormous emotional insight, and opening up a world few middle-class readers would have imagined they could enter and even at times understand. I have rarely been so surprised by a book. Highly recommended.

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Tim Wheeler

Gritty and real

Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2016

This exceptional piece of investigative journalism takes the reader into the world of Tanzanian stowaways: at times harsh and desperate, at times heartwarming. The author immersed himself into this subculture and returned with a fascinating story to tell.

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Excellent read!

Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2016

Wonderful, wonderful book. Most especially for Capetonians!

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Wonderful informed gritty adventure

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 25, 2016

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My Amazon review of Sean's book: To read a book where a writer of Christie's quality has gone to these extraordinary lengths to understand a subject is both unique and incredibly rewarding. The gritty nature of the subject overlaid with the adventure that ensues makes for compelling reading. Whilst it is regionally heavy, it has considerable relevance and insight into current global trends where more people than ever before are making the decision to take perilous journeys to create a better future for their families. I have completed the book with my perception of the world much better informed.

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Marian van Oorschot

This is a brilliant and compelling read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 21, 2016

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This is a brilliant and compelling read, written without judgement or affectation. The author offers a rare insight into the life of Cape Town's transient stowaways, their culture, routes and motivation, and in doing so draws the reader into a world that is both squalid and magnificent. A must read for anyone interested in how Africa functions.

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