{"product_id":"mwenzi-aleks-kavalenko-9798197123077","title":"Mwenzi: A Data Journalist on the Trail of a Humanitarian Foundation.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFour hundred percent in seven years. For a disease no one has ever heard of.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJonas Reuter sees the curve on a Wednesday evening, half past eight, in the almost empty open-plan office of a small investigative newsroom in Hamburg. It was supposed to be routine: an analysis of WHO mortality data, a comparison base for an HIV investigation he promised to deliver to a colleague by Monday. But the number in front of him cannot be right.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe disease is called \u003ci\u003eMwenzi\u003c\/i\u003e. It appears in a program run by the Voss Foundation, one of Europe's most respected humanitarian organizations. Edmund Voss speaks softly. He rarely smiles. The world calls him a saint.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReuter is forty-seven, divorced, with a nine-year-old daughter. He begins asking how exactly the foundation operates in Nigeria. Within days, the answers he receives no longer fit together. He flies to Lagos, then to Kano. He meets a Nigerian doctor who no longer knows whom to trust, and an old man on the edge of the city who explains, in his own language, what \u003ci\u003eMwenzi\u003c\/i\u003e once meant before the foundation turned the word into marketing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs he investigates, doors begin to close around him that he had never noticed before. As he investigates, his daughter sees less and less of him. As he investigates, he learns another word for \u003ci\u003ehelp\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA literary investigative novel, documentary in tone, clinically precise in detail. About help as a language. About the silence in which meanings are shifted. About a man who finishes a story no one wants finished.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Aleks Kavalenko\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798197123077\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d","brand":"Aleks Kavalenko","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997691654399,"sku":"9798197123077","price":7.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mwenzi-aleks-kavalenko-9798197123077","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}