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The Cockroach Dance

by Meja Mwangi · 1979

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The story of one man's resistance to a system and society run by faceless ones. Dusman Gonzaga lives in a squalid tenement building overrun with cockroaches and inhabited by strange characters. His is a world of poverty, fights, bar women and visits to a doctor who doesn't understand him.

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