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Paul Theroux on Mugabe’s Longevity, Angola’s Xenophobia, African Urbanization, and the Demise of the Bookstore

22 Wednesday May 2013

Posted by africaindc in Reviews, Uncategorized

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Agostinho Neto, Amnesty International, Angola xenophobia, Cape Town Urbanization, Lubango, Malawi, Paul Theroux, Paul Theroux Peace Corps, Politics and Prose, Robert Mugabe, The Last Train to Zona Verde

2013-05-21 20.11.58

While I believe I have only read one of Paul Theroux’s books, the travelogue Dark Star Safari, his political activism as a Peace Corps volunteer (which ultimately got him expelled from Malawi) has fascinated me.  Theroux made an appearance at Politics and Prose yesterday, to promote his new book The Last Train to Zona Verde (which appears to focus on South Africa, Namibia, and Angola but draws from a trip that went as far north as Nigeria as I understand it). Continue reading →

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