The Wicked Walk
Dar es Salaam: Tanzania Publishing House, 1977. Very Good. Item #50264
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Tanzania Publishing House, 1977. First Edition. Small octavo (18cm); illustrated wraps; 132pp. Covers rather worn and creased with curling to corners; pen annotations to title page, margins, and more extensive notes with plot summaries to final page of text and interior of rear wraps; Good only.
The Wicked Walk tells the story of Maria, a sex worker in Dar es Salaam; her daughter from an incestuous relationship, Nancy; Deo, a factory worker in love with Nancy; and Magege, the manager there who has the means to indulge in his myriad personal desires.
Scholar Fikeni E.M.K. Senkoro writes that "Although there is no direct link made between the workers of the Mount Goat Rubber Industry and the prostitutes at Livingstone Street, one discovers in the words and slogans of the workers at the industry, that they are all one and the same. All their energies and sweat, their minds and their bodies have been and are being prostituted by the capitalist system."
Fikeni E.M.K. Senkoro, The Prostitute in African Literature. Dar es Salaam: Dar es Salaam University Press, 1979, page 50.
Price: $125.00