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It was a cold, dark night. Everything was quiet. A Mawingo bus was travelling from Nairobi to Mombasa. It had big signs painted on the outside: Danger- man. It had travelled over two hundred kilometres and was approaching Mtito Andei. Everybody in the bus was fast asleep. Everyone, that is, except four people. So begins an adventure for four Kenyan youths, two boys and two girls, that explores the depth of deprivation and disaster that capitalism has been for working people in Kenya. Tricked into becoming forced workers for a factory with owners from USA, Britain and Japan, the youth live the harsh life of exploited workers. However, their sense of justice soon turns them into rebels seeking life and freedom. The story takes them through life-threatening adventures, fighting the armed forces summoned by the factory owners. Will they manage to survive the brutal attacks by fierce dogs and armed militia? Will they live to see the sea at Mombasa they had set out for?

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Publié par	Vita Books
Date de parution	26 mars 2021
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9789914987515
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Escape from Moneyville
Shiraz Durrani
Translated from Gujarati: Muri nagar nu nash (1985)
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system without permission in writing from the publisher.
Copyright © Shiraz Durrani 2021
Published in 2021 by:
Vita Books
Uni.Way House, Second Floor, University Way
Next to Lilian Towers
P.O. Box 62501-00200
Nairobi. Kenya
http://vitabooks.co.uk
info.vitabkske@gmail.com
Distributed Worldwide by:
African Books Collective
P.O. Box 721
Oxford, OX1 9EN
orders@africanbookscollective.com
www.africanbookscollective.com
Design & Layout: (Bwana) Mdogo
ISBN 978-9914-9875-0-8 (paper)
ISBN 978-9914-9875-1-5 (eBook)
Dedication
Dedicated to all young people who survive the daily armed and unarmed attacks of capitalism in Kenya, Africa and around the world.
In Remembrance
In remembrance of millions of young victims who could not be saved from the ravages of capitalism in its relentless drive for extreme wealth for a few and poverty and death for millions of working people.
In Conviction
That the nation will rise up one day under the leadership of its working class youth to challenge the status quo and create a socialist society based on equality and justice.
Acknowledgement
I wrote Escape From Moneyville in 1985 in Gujarati as letters from London to my sons in Nairobi. It was later translated by me into English for this publication. The original letters thus reflected social, political and economic contradictions in Kenya in the 1980s. When Vita Books decided to published the letters as a short story, it was felt that, while the basic social contradictions remained the same, the particularities of the society had changed over the period of over 35 years.
Noosim Naimasiah , a member of Vita Books and Ukombozi Library, then suggested ways to make the story more accessible to readers in the 2020s. These included changing the names of main characters and providing more background information on some incidents narrated in the story. Her research and suggestions thus provided additional input to the story as they rooted it into the social reality in the 2020s, while retaining the content and the spirit of the original story. I would like to thank Noosim for her interest and enthusiasm she has shown by taking the story to younger people in her family to test out its relevance to the Kenyan reality today.
At the same time, I would like to acknowledge the contribution of the illustrator, Bwana Mdogo for his creative input through his illustrations. His approach to art is instructive for other artists: ‘I find it important to understand the story, the characters, the themes ......Once immersed in it, then one can view events close to the characters, and visualize them’. And he reached the conclusion that the story needed to be rooted in today’s Kenya: ‘I came up with these [illustrations] from a current perspective of Mathare’.
In acknowledging the contributions of Noosim and Mdogo, I reflect on the need to acknowledge the contributors of researchers, editors, artists and others involved in bringing books to their readers. Without their creative input, books would remain words on paper. They are the ones who bring words and books to life. This book is a collective creation of all of us. And I thank them all.
Shiraz Durrani January 3, 2021.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgement
Chapter 1. A trap is set
Chapter 2. Moneyville
• Abdullah’s Story
Chapter 3. Such a day will come
• Mwangi’s Story
• Wilberforce’s Story
Chapter 4. Who cut the telephone wires?
• Nekesa’s Story
Chapter 5. A plan of action
• Wanjiru’s Story
Chapter 6. A day brighter than the sun
Chapter 7. Birth of Labourville
• Tumbo’s Story
• Kiboko’s Story
• Otieno’s Story
Chapter 8. Escape…?

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Title of Illustrations
1. I like children, but have none of my own….
2. Welcome to Moneyville, your new home.
3. What the company wants, the company gets.
4. Too much work for children.
5. The New East African Trade Union Congress.
6. Lift from a man in an expensive car.
7. Who cut the telephone wires?
8. Thinking about her childhood in Mombasa.
9. What are we going to do now?
10. Askaris took her mother to remand prison.
11. A day brighter than the sun.
12. This place is now called Labourville.
13. His fathers freedom was to send him to the best school in the country.
14. Warning against subservient Mau Mau songs.
15. Out of school for missing a months fees.
16. What are you doing here at this time of night?
17. Original story in Gujarati.

Characters
Labourville
Mwangi - Boy in the bus
Otieno - Boy in the bus
Nekesa - Girl in the bus
Wanjiru - Girl in the bus
Abdullah - Bus/Matatu driver
Khamisi - Worker
Wanyonyi - Worker
Sakina* - Worker
Wacuuma* - Mwangi’s father - Dockworker
Otieno’s father* - Tailor, EAI
Nekesa’s mother* - Washerwoman
Wairimu* - Wanjiru’s mother, Mama Mboga (& her son)
Halima* - Abdullah’s mother
Mama Moraa – A friendly cook at the New Mathare Hotel
Bwana Juma - The main cook at The New Mathare Hotel

Characters
Moneyville
Tumbo - Manager of Moneyville (MV)
Wilberforce - Chief of Finance
Kiboko - Chief of Police
Bahadur* - Chief of Security
Airport Manager* - Tumbo’s brother
Hidden Owners of Moneyville :
American*
British*
Japanese*

***Mentions only
Chapter 1. A trap is set
It was a cold, dark night. Everything was quiet. A Mawingo bus was travelling from Nairobi to Mombasa. It has big signs painted on the outside: “Dangerman”. It had travelled over two hundred kilometres and was approaching Mtito Andei which was halfway between the two cities.
Everybody in the bus was fast asleep. Everyone, that is, except four people. Abdullah, the driver would have loved to sleep, He was so tired. That very morning, he had driven another bus; the Hatuna Tabu , from Mombasa to Nairobi. Then he had rushed off to Hadhramout Hotel in River Road which had no doors. Probably because it never closed. He ordered and hurriedly ate nyama choma na chapati. He had a brief rest before taking up Dangerman . No wonder he was so sleepy. It was only the mirungi he chewed all night that kept him awake.
Mr. Tumbo was the other one who could not sleep. True to his name, he had a huge stomach. He was also quite short, and this made him look podgy. He was altogether so round that his head, which was small and bald, looked like a small lonely lemon placed on a huge football. He had a nervous habit of wiping his forehead with a neat handkerchief, even though there was actually nothing there to wipe. Mr. Tumbo could not sleep or even rest. Some higher mission made him agitated. He kept looking at the time in his expensive watch.

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