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Snakepit
Written by Moses Isegawa
Narrated by Nyambi Nyambi
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
3/5
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About this audiobook
Critically hailed, Uganda-born authorMoses Isegawa's Snakepit is a "high-octane melodrama bearing a potent . message [that] delivers the goods" (Kirkus Reviews). Bat Katanga, a Cambridge University post-graduate, returns to his dictator-oppressed African homeland in the 1970s. Rising rapidly through the government's bureaucratic ranks, Bat must navigate-and survive-a world rife with bribery, seduction, conspiracy and execution.
Author
Moses Isegawa
Moses Isegawa was born in 1963 in Kampala, Uganda. The author of Abyssinian Chronicles and Snakepit, both published by Picador, he now has Dutch nationality and lives near Amsterdam.
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Reviews for Snakepit
Rating: 3.119047619047619 out of 5 stars
3/5
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Story of greed, power, murder and paranoia in Idi Amin's Uganda. The book follows a cavalcade of characters as they reach for power, love or money in the new "snakepit" that is Uganda, and many are met with disastrous results. The main character is Bat, a Ugandan educated in at Cambridge, who returns to take a job under the constantly paranoid General Bazooka. Bazooka hires a former lover, Victoria, to spy on the well educated Bat. What ensues is a story of deception, lust, suspicion and retaliation in the terror filled world of 1970s Uganda. Some scenes not for the faint at heart.I enjoyed the book a lot. The only thing that kept me from giving the book 4 out of five was the fact the book followed so many characters, that some lacked details and depth that would have made the book even more intriguing (i.e. Victoria). Otherwise, it was a very insightful story about the life during some of the most torturous times in history.