Volume 17, Number 4 · September 23, 1971
In Africa
By John Thompson
Jungle Lovers
by Paul Theroux
Houghton Mifflin, 307 pp., $5.95
Farquharson's Physique: And What It Did to His Mind
by David Knight
Stein & Day, 478 pp., $7.95
The Wanderers
by Ezekiel Mphahlele
Macmillan, 351 pp., $6.95
This Earth, My Brother…An Allegorical Tale of Africa
by Kofi Awoonor
Doubleday, 232 pp., $5.95
Bound to Violence
by Yambo Ouologuem, translated by Ralph Manheim
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 182 pp., $5.95
Toward the end of Paul Theroux's novel, Jungle Lovers, there is a bit of dialogue between two young men. They are somewhere in Malawi, a lesser nation of Central Africa. One of them is a citizen of that land, the other an American. Their circumstances at the moment are bizarre, but, for Theroux's Malawi, only quotidianly so. What matters is the general circumstance: Africa.
Review, 3944 words
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