01547nam a22001817b 4500 20240911125021.0 240911b sa ||||| |||| 00| 1 eng d 9781868427710 pbk RDA OCLC E EF JOHN Johnson, R.W 135414 Foreign native by R.W Johnson Johannesburg; Jonathan Ball Publishers; 2020. 280 pages 23 cm In Foreign Native, RW Johnson looks back with affection and humour on his life in Africa. From schooldays in Durban – fresh off the aeroplane 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 the 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. ddc BOOK 174 Sanet Schoeman 174 Sanet Schoeman 767491 767490 0 0 ddc 0 0 F STANRL EMBAL FIC 2024-09-11 285.50 0 EF JOHN 33228031152433 2024-09-11 2024-09-11 BOOK 0 0 ddc 0 0 F STANRL EVANL FIC 2024-09-11 285.50 0 EF JOHN 33228031152431 2024-09-11 2024-09-11 BOOK 0 0 ddc 0 0 F STANRL amer FIC 2024-09-11 285.50 0 EF JOHN 33228031152432 2024-09-11 2024-09-11 BOOK 0 0 ddc 0 0 F AMERL AMERL FIC 2026-06-30 0 EF JOHN 33228022297541 2026-06-30 285.50 2026-06-30 BK