Under Nelson Mandela Boulevard : life among the stowaways / Sean Christie.

Johannesburg : Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2016.

©2016

xiii, 240 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Beneath the Nelson Mandela Boulevard flyover on Cape Town's Foreshore lives a community of stowaways, young Tanzanian men from the slums of Dar es Salaam. When journalist Sean Christie meets Adam Bashili, he comes to know the extraordinary world of the Beachboys, a multi-port, fourth-generation subculture that lives to stow away and stows away to survive. This book remaps both city and continent, introducing us to the placed and people we so frequently overlook.

February 28, 2017