Passage to Africa
D.A.N. Jones, 7 July 1983
Nigerian Kaleidoscope
by Rex Niven.
Hurst/Archon, 278 pp., £13.50, January 1983,0 905838 59 9 Show More
by Rex Niven.
Hurst/Archon, 278 pp., £13.50, January 1983,
Stepping-Stones
by Sylvia Leith-Ross, edited by Michael Crowder.
Peter Owen, 191 pp., £10.95, February 1983,0 7206 0600 4 Show More
by Sylvia Leith-Ross, edited by Michael Crowder.
Peter Owen, 191 pp., £10.95, February 1983,
Female and Male in West Africa
edited by Christine Oppong.
Allen and Unwin, 402 pp., £18.50, April 1983,0 04 301158 6 Show More
edited by Christine Oppong.
Allen and Unwin, 402 pp., £18.50, April 1983,
Memories of Our Recent Boom
by Kole Omotoso.
Longman, 232 pp., £1.50, May 1983,0 582 78572 3 Show More
by Kole Omotoso.
Longman, 232 pp., £1.50, May 1983,
“... When I took up work in Nigeria, the day after their Independence ceremony of 1960, I had with me two old British books to introduce me to the country – or, at least, to my seniors’ appreciation of it. They were as different, almost, as Cocteau and Baden-Powell. One was picturesque and picaresque, Africa Dances: A Book about West African Negroes, published by Geoffrey Gorer in 1935 when he was 30, after a rather Waugh-like tour of French and British territories: he had been guided by Féral Benga, a ballet dancer from Senegal whom he had met in Paris ... ”
