![]() ![]() The name is indicative of Jama's luck, his verve, his ability to survive in the most pressing, abject circumstances, and it's a name that over time he internalises, gradually allowing it to inform the decisions he makes in this astonishing narrative, a fictionalised account of the early years of the life of Mohameds father. ![]() All of these are significant, but the last, with its wink towards a potential prophetic learning: in addition to his given name, Jama also goes by the nickname Goode, or black mamba, for the time when one such deadly snake slithered over his mother's pregnant belly, but with benign consequences. Ten year old Jama, protagonist of Nadifa Mohameds Orange Prize short listed Black Mamba Boy, is a boy of multiple stories, multiple lives, and multiple names. ![]() If you're new here, why not subscribe to our email updates or follow us on Facebook? You can also add us to your Google Reader. ![]()
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