Under Nelson Mandela Boulevard

Life among the stowaways

Sean Christie

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Jonathan Ball Publishers SA
01 September 2016

Reportage & collected journalism; Social & cultural history; Shipping industries

Beneath the Nelson Mandela Boulevard flyover on Cape Town's foreshore lives a community of stowaways, young Tanzanian men from the slums of Dar es Salaam. When journalist Sean Christie meets Adam Bashili, he comes to know the extraordinary world of the Beachboys, a multi-port, fourth-generation subculture that lives to stow away and stows away to survive. But Sean starts to accompany the beachboys on trips around their everyday Cape Town, he becomes more than a casual observer, serving as sometime moneylender, driver, confidant and scribe, and eventually joining Adam on an unprecedented tour of Dar es Salaam's underworld and a reckless run down Africa's east coast.

Under Nelson Mandela Boulevard remaps both city and continent, introducing us to the places and people we so frequently overlook

By: Sean Christie
Imprint: Jonathan Ball Publishers SA
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 500g
ISBN: 9781868426904
ISBN 10: 1868426904
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 01 September 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sean Christie was a category winner at the 2014 CNN African Journalist of the Year Awards. In 2015 he was awarded a Taco Kuiper prize for his journalism on the stowaways.

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Under Nelson Mandela Boulevard

Life among the stowaways

Sean Christie

$39.95 $33.60

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