TY - BOOK ID - 77944796 TI - The bad samaritan PY - 2009 SN - 1283198207 9956716219 9786613198204 9956716332 9956615404 9789956716333 9956558710 9789956558711 9789956558711 9956558710 9789956615407 PB - Bamenda, Cameroon Langaa DB - UniCat KW - Financial crises KW - Crashes, Financial KW - Crises, Financial KW - Financial crashes KW - Financial panics KW - Panics (Finance) KW - Stock exchange crashes KW - Stock market panics KW - Crises KW - Africa KW - Eastern Hemisphere KW - Politics and government KW - Cameroonian fiction (English) KW - Cameroonian literature (English) KW - Cameroon literature (English) KW - English literature KW - Cameroonian literature KW - Cameroon fiction (English) KW - English fiction UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77944796 AB - The Bad Samaritan is set in a kleptomaniac and highly corrupt imaginary African country called Ewawa. Due to mismanagement, financial institutions collapse. Salaries are slashed and there is unprecedented unemployment leading to country exodus. Professor Esole and his wife are not only aggrieved by the salary slashes, but also by the dubious closure of the Post Office Savings Bank with their savings. Desperate for money, they resort to borrowing from private sources at exorbitant interest rates. Esole toddles into politics with the aim of righting things. Will his naive approach to politics ER -