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Ashanti Gift Catalogue

Support our projects by choosing from our tempting range of clothing and gifts. There are special treats for you - and fabulous gifts for your friends and family. Download SUFA’s Ashanti Gift Catalogue (pdf).

Support our Safe Water Project in Kenya

Would you like to read a good book and support SUFA at the same time? Author Mark Booth is donating all royalties from the sale of The Wonderful World of Joseph McCrumble to our Safe Water Project.

How to order

The Wonderful World of Joseph McCrumble is yours for just £7.99 (paperback). Order your copy(ies) today, by sending a cheque/postal order made payable to Stand Up For Africa (including your address and phone number) to PO Box 46815, London, SW11 5SF

Once every generation, a powerful figure, imbued with natural authority, will take an enormous risk to bring about positive change in the way society functions. They bring hope of a better life for all, unfettered by ignorance, emboldened by knowledge.

Dr Joseph McCrumble wishes he was that figure. He longs for the time when the whole world recognises the value of the risks he has taken to bring his science (parasitology) and art (abstractism) to the world. But something, or someone, is holding him back. Could it be his wife perhaps – at turns prudish and disparaging? Or his research assistant – the inscrutable but loyal Bulgarian ex-soldier known as Ravel? How about his wife's mother, a serial kleptomaniac who never has a good word to say about her son-in-law? Or perhaps it is McCrumble himself, unable to cope with modern pressures whilst striving for recognition for an unacknowledged agenda?

The Wonderful World of Joseph McCrumble is a transcript of our protagonist’s diary covering nine months of an increasingly turbulent time in his life. What begins as an exercise in enlightenment becomes a tumultuous adventure of high and low tragi-comedy. Gasp as McCrumble encounters deadly jellyfish, stampeding buffalo and man-eating crocodiles. Squirm as he describes the excision of botfly larvae from a victim's eyeball. Laugh as he fumbles about innocently in the dark and cry in sympathy as it all goes horribly wrong. The Wonderful World of Joseph McCrumble will leave you inspired, dazed and confused.

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