North of South: An African Journey

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Penguin, Sep 26, 1996 - Social Science - 352 pages
In the 1970s Shiva Naipaul travelled to Africa, visiting Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia for several months. Through his experiences, the places he visited and his various encounters, he aimed to discover what 'liberation', 'revolution' and 'socialism' meant to the ordinary people. His journey of discovery is brilliantly documented in this intimate, comic and controversial portrayal of a continent on the brink of change.
 

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Contents

Bright Lights
35
I Black and White Old Style
68
New Style
85
Between Master and Slave
96
A Highlands Adventure
123
A Spell on the Coast
170
PART TWO
195
Taking the Socialist Road
197
Three Portraits
213
Animals and Men
221
The Haven of Peace
241
Words Words Words
263
Into the Void
299
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References to this book

About the author (1996)

Shiva Naipaul was born in 1945 in Port of Spain, Trinidad. He was educated at Queen's Royal College and St Mary's College in Trinidad and at University College, Oxford. He married in 1967 and had one son. His books include Fireflies (1970), which won the Jock Campbell New Statesman Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize and the Winifred Holtby Prize; North of South (1978), the story of his remarkable journey through Africa; Black and White (1980); A Hot Country (1983); and Beyond the Dragon's Mouth: Stories and Pieces (1984).

Bibliographic information

TitleNorth of South: An African Journey
Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin Series
Penguin twentieth-century classics
AuthorShiva Naipaul
Editionreprint, revised
PublisherPenguin, 1996
ISBN0140188266, 9780140188264
Length352 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Political Science / General
Social Science / Developing & Emerging Countries
Travel / Africa / General
Travel / Essays & Travelogues
  
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