Last days in cloud cuckooland
dispatches from white Africa
by Graham Boynton
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Last Days in Cloud Cuckooland is Graham Boynton's account of the final gasps of white culture on the continent, from the flight of the Belgian refugees from the Congo in 1960 through the first years of Nelson Mandela's presidency in South Africa. In a series of graphic accounts of the human dramas marking this disorderly retreat, he illuminates the complexity and ambiguity of the role of the whites in Africa.
They "were never a unified gang of cold-hearted supremacists," he writes, "any more than the blacks in Africa have been a saintly group of idealists and altruists." It is an evocative story, and as it unfolds the author is drawn toward a controversial conclusion. If the white colonials did a rather poor job of making Africa work, he argues, then their African successors have done considerably worse.
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Race relations, Social life and customs, Journalists, Anti-apartheid movements, Apartheid, Biography, Boynton, Graham, South africa, politics and government, Africa, race relations, Africa, politics and government, South africa, race relationsPeople
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Last days in cloud cuckooland: dispatches from white Africa
1997, Random House
in English
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0679432043 9780679432043
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-282) and index.
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