"Hulla! Beer is so sweet!" Majoti let those words vibrate smoothly in the air. "When I'm drunk as I am now," he breathed a sigh of excitement. "I feel as if I'm sleeping on top of mount Everest." He started singing as he fought his way back to Mchere Secondary School.

"Form ones," Majoti waited for an answer. "Come in room number 6 and take off my clothes. The boss has landed!"

The beer noise Majoti was making had awaken and irritated Chibwe. Chibwe was a heavily built young man with natural powerful muscles. His head was like an axe-head. Talk of his feet, they could "over-flood" on an open shoe. Unlike...