The Ukimwi Road: From Kenya to Zimbabwe

In January 1992, Dervla Murphy prescribed herself several carefree months and embarked on a cycle tour (pedalling and pushing) from Kenya to Zimbabwe via Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia on the cyclist's equivalent of a Rolls Royce called Lear. Before long, she realized that for travellers who wish to remain stress-free, Africa is the wrong continent. Inevitably she was caught up in the harrowing problems of the peoples she met, the devastating effects of AIDS (ukimwi is Swahili for AIDS), drought and economic collapse, scepticism about Western aid schemes, and corruption and incompetence, both white and black.

Softcover. English. Flamingo. 1994. In fair/good condition.