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Goodbye Dr Banda: Lessons for the West from a Small African Country

The book combines memoir and travelogue and follows the author’s experiences working in Malawi, first as a classics teacher and later as a medical volunteer.

Location Hybrid: Edinburgh City Chambers and on Zoom

Everyone is welcome to join us for the launch of, “Goodbye Dr Banda: Lessons for the West from a Small African Country”, by author, Alexander Chula. Having worked in Malawi as a Latin and Greek teacher, Alexander currently works for the NHS as a junior doctor.

This book uncovers the story behind an oak treasure chest stumbled on by Alexander where he finds an antique edition of Julius Caeser's Gallic War. The book explains: “This unexpected talisman of Western high culture belongs to the mercurial Dr Banda, a man of many parts: scholarly physician, anti-colonial hero, brutal tyrant, and fallen philosopher-king.”

*Exact dates to be announced.

Location: Edinburgh City Chambers and on Zoom.

Good Bye Dr Banda