This is a pacey book set in Africa. It recounts the experience of an ordinary boy in the Southern African Country of Zambia who achieves extraordinary things. The book follows him from his birth in the unknown village of Mwense in the barren province of Luapula in Zambia to his training in England as a Doctor. It ends with his being given an award of recognition by a professional American Medical Association. The book makes you travel with the author from the villages of Africa, into the corridors of Medical School, the hospitals of England and the vast cities of the United States. His vivid and easy writing style, makes it difficult to put the book down until you finish it. It reads like fiction, but brings out so clearly the statement that the truth is better than fiction. The story is told with warmth and realism that is common among African story tellers. It views the world from a pleasant fresh African eye. The icing on the cake is the fact that this is a true story of the success of an African man. It is an example of what can be achieved by hard work and determination. It makes for good leisurely reading for the family or for those young people wishing to motivate themselves about the future. It is a biography, but it is really a motivational book for young career people every where. Read it and it will leave an impression on you.
About the Author: Professor Kasonde Bowa recounts his life story in a compelling humorous and interesting way.He is candid about his successes and failures. It will inspire many young African boys and girls to pursue the career of medicine and perhaps surgery. He was born in Mwense in 1965.Grew up in Kitwe and has lived mostly in Lusaka. He has studied widely and been to over 28 countries in the world. He studied at the University of Glasgow in Scotland and worked at the University College London Hospitals in the United Kingdom. He has received the Belgian Development Prize for research in 2000, the Rahima Dawood prize in 2002, the BJU and SIU foundation scholarship in 2002 and was the international guest scholar for the American College of Surgeons in 2004. He has done over 100 podium presentations and has over 50 peer reviewed journal publications. He has been a consultant to the World Health Organisation, SADC, SAT and UNICEF in the area of Male Circumcision. He is one of the World's leading experts on Male Circumcision in HIV prevention. Kasonde Bowa studied for his medical degree at the University of Zambia school of Medicine.He did his post graduate training in Anatomy at the University of Glasgow in Scotland.He is one of very few Africans to hold 3 fellowships, he is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and Physicians of Glasgow, the American College of Surgeons and the College of surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa. He also holds the Master of Medicine in Surgery and the Diploma in Public Health from the London School of Tropical Medicine and hygiene. He has had an illustrious career as an academic. He is the recipient of over 10 awards and prizes locally, regionally and internationally. He is the first Zambian Professor of Urology and the First Dean of the Copperbelt University School of Medicine in Ndola. His personal motto of "Sacrifice, Selflessness and Service" is the hall mark of his life, work and underpins this biography. His story will be one with which many can relate to, of simple beginnings and will encourage many young people to be ambitious with their dreams. The moral of this story is that where you start doesn't determine where you end up, other people determine where you start, but you are the one who decides where you end up. Professor Bowa has a wife Theresa and 3 children Chiku, Chesu and Wandi.His eldest daughter Chiku is studying at Copperbelt University in the premedical course