Light a Candle / Tumaini pasipo na Tumaini

Download or read book Light a Candle / Tumaini pasipo na Tumaini written by Godfrey Nkongolo and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Co-written by Eric Walters and Godfrey Nkongolo, Light a Candle weaves non-fiction with fiction to tell the story of a boy coming of age in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro. The son of the village's chief climbs the mountain against his father’s wishes to fulfill a request of the country’s first leader, Julius Nyerere, to light a candle on the top of the mountain and unify the mainland of Tanganyika and the islands of Zanzibar as one country, the United Republic of Tanzania. This bilingual book includes full text in both English and Swahili.