Zanzibar to Timbuktu

About this book

This is an account of a medical doctors experiences in Tanzania where he came "to the grimmest possible conclusion about Africas future". In search of some cause for hope he set out to travel home across the continent by train bus lorry boat and canoe. Sharply observant he catalogues the oppression corruption ignorance and poverty he finds. In the end it is in his good humoured and pragmatic travelling companions that he finds hope for the future. He concludes that the only quality that sustains Africans in the face of poverty and hopelessness is their innate cheerfulness. The author also wrote "Coups and Cocaine".