Zambo has been described as a monster and great ape. What physical features qualify him for such a description?

‘You will also meet Mama’s son Zambo, your cousin. He’s a big fellow, just like his father, looks more like his brother than his son.’ pg. 16

The first thing that caught my eye was a great hulking devil in the Kala team, who had such enormous muscles that I concluded he must have bought them on the instalment system. There was simply no other explanation possible. He was tall and flat-footed, with a disproportionately lengthy torso which, nevertheless, he carried very badly. His buttocks were incredibly slender, yet he retained the country native’s slight pot-belly, due to a habitually rough and meagre diet. He was like a kind of human baobab tree. pg. 23