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Chris Elgood saw a witchcraft trial in Africa in 1957 and was delighted by the way witchdoctors adapted western technology. (The Kalilozi Gun). This interest lay dormant for many years till his Handbook of Management Games (Gower 1997) was acclaimed.

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For several days now I( have watched politicians competing with each other to promise how much money they will spend (if elected) on various public services.

Nothing is said about the difficulty of getting the practical results hoped for. What happens in a bureaucracy is that somebody is given a huge pot of money but has trouble finding enough people with the skills

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	He Only Died Twice (The upward mobility of Nshila Ileloka Book 2) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Way We Live Now

by Anthony Trollope

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Chris Elgood said: " A book that reflects the issues of the time, but also the more discursive style of writing and reading that then prevailed. The plot exists more as a framework for social comment than for excitement. There are extensive passages about what the charac ...more "

Dec 09, 2013 08:00AM · see review

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Breath of Africa

by J.L. Bwye (Goodreads Author)

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Chris Elgood said: " At one level this is a book about a European woman living in Kenya from the 1950’s to the 1980’s.The title is well-chosen because the book creates a true feeling of what it is like to live in many parts of Africa. It conveys the space, scale and open At one level this is a book about a European woman living in Kenya from the 1950’s to the 1980’s.The title is well-chosen because the book creates a true feeling of what it is like to live in many parts of Africa. It conveys the space, scale and openness that are lacking in an over-crowded, urbanised European island. It is full of love for the scenic beauty of Kenya, and it’s variety. It conveys the comparative degree of personal freedom that can’t be found when life is so complicated that every aspect must be regulated. You can almost breathe African air.

The story starts about the time of the Mau Mau emergency when principal character, Catherine, is a pupil in a convent school. She is brought up in the white highlands and enjoys the privileged life of the settlers. She is a well-meaning liberal who loves the country of her birth and repeatedly expresses hope of a ‘New Kenya’ in which people are united. The book tells of her way of life as the country changes, the people who she meets and parts from, the places she visits and her romantic attachments,

At another level it is a serious consideration of the extent to which European and African thinking can relate to each other. The book recognises the conflict inherent to racial difference. One character describes this as having been inevitable since European colonisation began. This affects Catherine’s life in ways that she copes with well, but which inform us in a subtle manner of the demands that are made upon her African friends: demands that are outside her experience. They appear to be fully adapted to the western life-style but can be reclaimed at times by tribal beliefs and loyalties.

The extremes of black and white attitudes are shown, with the difficulties these create for people of goodwill. It is noticeable that Catherine’s humanity enables her to ignore race where possible. She makes her living by running a guest house, but we are never told if her clients are black or white. Yet the cultural division is the most powerful theme in the book, which starts with the imposition of a curse. The effects of this curse are worked out at intervals during the book and have an indirect effect on Catherine herself. The final outcome is suggested but never explicitly stated.

So the book is about a life spent through troubled times in Kenya by a European woman. It ends with her conclusion that she can contribute to the new country but that the divisions are so great that she can never be an integral part of it. One of her African friends says to her, “We must advance in our own way. Only then will we promote a truly African answer to our international identity”. ...more "

Mar 13, 2014 11:26AM · see review

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The Cloud of Unknowing

by Anonymous

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Chris Elgood said: " It is a significant book, but should be read only by people interested in the mystical tradition of 14th Century Christianity. It is the principal item in a collection of texts published under the same name. The writer is thought to be a monk, devote ...more "

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