Supper with the President by Ian Mathie

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Supper with the President by Ian Mathie

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Part of African Memoir Series series

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Supper with the President by Ian Mathie

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 touch 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 those 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.

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ISBN 13 9781906852108
ISBN 10 1906852103
Title Supper with the President
Author Ian Mathie
Series African Memoir Series
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Mosaique Press
Year published 2011-10-01
Number of pages 252
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.