North of South: An African Journey by Shiva Naipaul
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- Pub. Date: February 1997
- 352pp
- Sales Rank: 198,232
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: February 1997
- Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
- Format: Paperback, 352pp
- Sales Rank: 198,232
- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Series
- ISBN-13: 9780140188264
- ISBN: 0140188266
- Edition Description: Reprint
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North of South: An African Journeyby Anonymous
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November 25, 2002: A somewhat dated journal of the journey of a native of the Carribean through the lands north of South Africa. An interesting read for those into explorations of post colonial Africa. Of interest to me in particular was the section about the owner and headmaster of a school in Mombasa, Kenya who was clearly a product of the colonial mindset. The author injects a touch of humor by describing the man as simply being frank. The name the author gave the headmaster was a pseudonym. According to lore at the Nairobi Academy (then sister school of the Mombasa Adacemy), the man was frank indeed -- alleged by some to be the late Frank Bentley, who founded both schools and later sold them before his death of cancer in 1987.
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