Fifteen Years of Tobacco

By Richard Black

After 15 years in power, Isaiah Mujuni, President of Barudi, the world’s leading tobacco producer realizes it’s all over. Demonstrators and rioters, inspired by similar events in North Africa have run amok- burning Government buildings and trashing the capital. They want him out and the International Community is on their side. His enemies want him tried for trumped up charges of human r

• Language: English
• Publisher: Richard Black
• Release date: Aug 16, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476281056

Richard Black

I live in Great Britain and I'm an avid reader. Sometimes I'm fascinated with sensational style journalism and the 24 hour news cycles on cable TV. I'm left amazed by how tabloid reporters and cable Networks choose to chronicle the times of our lives. I own a typewriter but it might as well be for decoration. I prefer using computers as they are a lot more user friendly. Among my other possessions are a shelf full of books, an e-reader and a fruit blender.

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Fifteen Years of Tobacco

By Richard Black

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This short story is a work of fiction. Names, characters and events are a product of the author’s imagination. Any similarities are purely coincidental.

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Fifteen Years of Tobacco

By the time he started his new job at the Presidential Palace, Jamal Awiya already had a drinking problem. The good thing, according to his counsellor at the Alcoholics Anonymous meeting where he had managed an appearance only once, was that he acknowledged his problem and wasn't living in self denial like most drink and substance abusers.

Your attitude and understanding are a good place to start, he was told, or rather consoled.

On the other hand, it was rather a hard place to start because Jamal had only attended that A.A meeting after losing his job as a tour guide for Thembo Tours &Safari Co.

Mr. Thembo, the proprietor of the tour company had decided to let him go as he had increasingly concentrated on working as a drinker rather than a tour guide.

He claimed, among other things, that Mr. Jamal Awiya had brought his Company into disrepute and there was no way that he as a strict Muslim would allow alcohol to pollute his business.

In fact, as far as Jamal could remember, his boss had always claimed that "Alcohol was the Devil's blood and tobacco