John William Banda

2022 | 196pp | ISBN: 9781914002205

With our human judgement, we tend to think there are good places to begin life from. Understandably, we tend to think that there are beginnings that are better than others. These beginnings might include the family context in which you are born, the level of access you have to quality education and having networks that can connect you to all sorts of opportunities. The reality, however, is that life simply throws us into existence. What matters is what we do with those circumstances in which we find ourselves.

The author of Tracing My Footsteps found himself in the humblest of beginnings. He worked with those beginnings to climb the ladder of civil service and build a circle of wonderful and reliable friendships.