Foreign native: An African Journey

by Johnson, R. W., (Richard William)

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Title Statements

Full title :Foreign native : An African Journey / R. W. Johnson.

Summary

'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."--Page 4 of cover.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2020.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Jonathan Ball Publishers
Place of Publication:Jeppestown, South Africa
Language:eng
Publication Date:2020.

The Physical Object

Description:xi, 280 pages ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781868427710, 1868427714
oclc:on1199333821
LC Classification:JC273
Dewey Decimal:323.631

Subjects

Autobiographies Autobiography Biographies Johnson, R. W., (Richard William) Political scientists Political scientists -- Biography. -- 2… Politologues -- Biographies. -- 20e siè… South Africa