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Foreign Native, RW Johnson
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RW Johnson

Foreign Native

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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344 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2020
Publication year
2020
Publisher
Jonathan Ball
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