Aidan Hartley Aidan Hartley

Inside story

A great white hunter takes aim at a few sacred cows in contemporary Africa

issue 16 December 2006

Kibera Court No. 2

Normally, I would bribe a traffic policeman, but very occasionally it feels good to hit back against the system. ‘Go ahead. Book me,’ I said. The copper, a huge creature with rolls of fat around his neck and piggy eyes, sighed as if to say, ‘You poor dope.’

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