He describes, at one Lagos electronics bazaar, repairmen sitting on dirt floors under shelves of scavenged parts, jury-rigging phones back together, over and over again, until the things are absolutely dead.
But when it comes to the bishops' strictures on inequality, which is described at one point by Sentamu as "evil", he parts company.
There is scarcely a character in the book – except, perhaps Marie-Léonie, the Frenchly practical mistress of Christopher's brother Mark – who is not described at one time or another as being mad, or on the verge of madness.
"More importantly, its term enabled the company to exercise tight administrative control over him during his periods of work for it; to impose fierce conditions on when and how much it paid to him, which were described at one point as his wages; and to restrict his ability to compete with it for plumbing work following any termination of their relationship.
The Muslim men are described, at one point, as mostly doctors and lawyers.
The wish to remain at home is a reasonable one, yet the problems I've described at one Bluebird Care business are far from unique.
The singer also claimed that her religious parents, who she describes at one point as "conservative ass motherfuckers", found it difficult to accept at first.
"The Poor Mouth" is a tremendously funny parody of the popular Irish peasant novel (the narrator's wife is described at one point as "skilled in potato-boiling").
And the script offers up a healthy dose of amusements in the form of backcountry word-slinging: "She could melt the wax off a Dixie cup at 50 feet," is how Hank's wife, Audrey Tertia Lynchh), is described at one point.
Gary Nelson, described at one of his many trials as one of "the most violent and dangerous men to walk the streets of Britain", is believed to hold the dubious record for being the country's most ghosted prisoner, having been moved to 33 jails over just one four-year period.
