Africa Dances
by Geoffrey Gorer
“It’s a kind of road trip and it’s very much about the conditions he finds people in, social affairs, really. He finds the French colonies radically different from the British. He sees the subjects in the French colonies as cowed – they salute the cars as they drive past the fields, and he meets French officials who are contemptuous and arrogant. He finds, to my surprise and, I think, to his as well, that the British are better-informed and have a better grasp of the region. It’s a fresh perspective, even if the language of the time jars a bit. He says ‘negroes’ a lot.”
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