It's our turn to read

The excellent writer Michela Wrong (okay – declaration of interest: she’s my friend. But she’s still a great writer) has a new book out: It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistleblower.

She has chronicled the extraordinary tale of John Githongo, the man tasked by the Kenyan government to stamp out corruption, who did his job so well that in 2005 he fled the country in fear of his life.

He turned up on Michela’s doorstep in London – and that’s where the story begins. John, whom I also know, is a complex, elusive man. He’s no saint, as Michela’s book makes clear.

But his dilemmas, his torn loyalty between tribe and cause, honesty to self and protection of family, have meaning far beyond Kenya and Africa.