Foreign Native: An African Journey

In Foreign Native, political commentator and author RW Johnson looks back with affection and humour on his life in Africa. From schooldays in Durban to later years as an Oxford don, director of the Helen Suzman Foundation and formidable political commentator, Johnson has produced an entertaining and occasionally eye—popping memoir brimming with history, anecdote and insight.Johnson charts his evolution from enthusiastic, left—leaning Africanist to political realist, relating episodes that i...