Foreign Native EPUB
by RW Johnson
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In Foreign Native, RW Johnson looks back with affection and humour on his life in Africa.
From schooldays in Durban - fresh off the plane from Merseyside - to later years as an academic, director of the Helen Suzman Foundation and formidable political commentator, he has produced an entertaining and occasionally eye-popping memoir brimming with history, anecdote and insight. Johnson charts his evolution from enthusiastic, left-leaning Africanist to political realist, relating episodes that influenced his intellectual worldview, including time spent among the exiled liberation movements in London during the 1960s, a sojourn in newly independent Guinea and more recent forays into Zimbabwe.
There are wonderful stories, some hilarious, others filled with pathos, about the multitude of characters – Harold Strachan, Tom Sharpe, Ronnie Kasrils, Helen Suzman, Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, among many others – that he met along the way. Perceptive, critical and full of verve, Foreign Native is leavened with a deep humanity that makes it a pleasure to read.
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- Publisher:Jonathan Ball
- Publication Date:23/07/2020
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- ISBN:9781868427727
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- Format:EPUB
- Publisher:Jonathan Ball
- Publication Date:23/07/2020
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- ISBN:9781868427727