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Under Nelson Mandela Boulevard - Life In CapeTown's Stowaway Underground (Paperback)
Beneath the Nelson Mandela Boulevard flyover on Cape Town'sforeshore lives a community of stowaways, young Tanzanian men from the slums ofDar es Salaam.
When journalist Sean Christie meets Adam Bashili, he comesto know the extraordinary world of Beachboys, a multi-port, fourth-generationsubculture that lives to stow away and stows away to survive. But Sean startsto accompany the beachboys on trips around their everyday Cape Town, he becomesmore than a casual observer, serving as sometime moneylender, driver, confidantand scribe, and eventually joining Adam on an unprecedented tour of Dar esSalaam's underworld and a reckless run down Africa's east coast.
Under Nelson Mandela Boulevard remaps both cityand continent, introducing us to the places and people we so frequentlyoverlook.