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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b10461945.
- catalog coverage "Africa, Southern Race relations.".
- catalog coverage "South Africa Race relations.".
- catalog coverage "Zimbabwe Race relations.".
- catalog coverage "Zimbabwe Social life and customs.".
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-282) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 299 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Last days in cloud cuckooland.".
- catalog identifier "0679432043".
- catalog isFormatOf "Last days in cloud cuckooland.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Random House,".
- catalog relation "Last days in cloud cuckooland.".
- catalog spatial "Africa, Southern Race relations.".
- catalog spatial "South Africa Race relations.".
- catalog spatial "South Africa".
- catalog spatial "South Africa.".
- catalog spatial "Zimbabwe Race relations.".
- catalog spatial "Zimbabwe Social life and customs.".
- catalog subject "968.05 21".
- catalog subject "Anti-apartheid movements South Africa.".
- catalog subject "Apartheid South Africa.".
- catalog subject "Boynton, Graham.".
- catalog subject "DT1957 .B68 1997".
- catalog subject "Journalists South Africa Biography.".
- catalog title "Last days in cloud cuckooland : dispatches from white Africa / Graham Boynton.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".