Black Mamba Boy (Audiobook)

from kaitanya64

This story, supposedly based on the experiences of the author's father, tells of Jama, a Somali boy whose first experiences in life are of poverty, hunger and grief. Jama lives with his mother and distant relatives in Aden, where his mother works in a coffee factory. When she dies, Jama is alone....

from bookwoman247

Jama is a young Somali boy, living the life of a street urchin in Yemen/Aden in 1935. His mother's death is the catalyst for his odyssey across North Africa in search of his father, who had left the famnily in order to find work. This is more than the quest for Jama's father. It is also very much...

from mausergem

This is the author's first novel. It a semi biographical account of her grandfather's life. Jama, a eleven year old boy in Aden a costal town in Yemen, lives with his mother who works in the local coffee bean factory in 1935. The boy and his mother live on the terrace of their relatives. The moth...

from kidzdoc

This debut novel by Mohamed, a British writer of Somali descent, is a fictionalized account of her father's harrowing childhood as an abandoned orphan in the Middle East and Africa, which was selected for the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction longlist. The boy was named Jama by his restless father Gu...

from rata

I found this novel hard to get into but I persevered and once I got a quarter of a way in I found i kept turning the pages and enjoying it. It was sad, but real and that is what kept me intrigued. I found the over use of descriptive words bothersome and I wish I had a vocabulary / glossary so tha...