This is a pacey book set in Africa. It recounts the experience of an ordinary boy in the Southern African Country of Zambia who achieves extraordinary things. The book follows him from his birth in the unknown village of Mwense in the barren province of Luapula in Zambia to his training in England as a Doctor. It ends with his being given an award of recognition by a professional American Medical Association. The book makes you travel with the author from the villages of Africa, into the corridors of Medical School, the hospitals of England and the vast cities of the United States. His vivid...