Episode 1
Prize-winning author Binyavanga Wainaina's impressionistic memoir of growing up in Kenya amongst a cacophony of sounds.
Prize-winning author Binyavanga Wainaina's impressionistic memoir of growing up in modern day Kenya amongst a cacophony of sounds, black mamba bicycle bells, the hairdryers at his mother's beauty parlour, the languages of dozens of tribes and the infectious laughter of his sister Ciru. But over it all hangs the dread of what is happening in his mother's homeland, to her family and friends, under the dictatorship of Idi Amin.
Read by Freddy Macha. Abridged by Jane Marshall
Produced by Jane Marshall
A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4.
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