{"product_id":"foreign-native-an-african-journey","title":"Foreign Native: An African Journey","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Foreign Native, RW Johnson looks back with affection and humour on his life in Africa. From schooldays in Durban - fresh off the plane from Merseyside - to later years as an academic, director of the Helen Suzman Foundation and formidable political commentator, he has produced an entertaining and occasionally eye-popping memoir brimming with history, anecdote and insight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohnson charts his evolution from enthusiastic, left-leaning Africanist to political realist, relating episodes that influenced his intellectual worldview, including time spent among the exiled liberation movements in London during the 1960s, a sojourn in newly independent Guinea and more recent forays into Zimbabwe. There are wonderful stories, some hilarious, others filled with pathos, about the multitude of characters - Harold Strachan, Tom Sharpe, Ronnie Kasrils, Helen Suzman, Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, among many others - that he met along the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerceptive, critical and full of verve, Foreign Native is leavened with a deep humanity that makes it a pleasure to read.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGenre:\u003c\/strong\u003e Biography \u0026amp; memoir, Personal Memoirs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Jonathan Ball Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781868427710\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Jonathan Ball Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £9.72","offer_id":47918672216241,"sku":"SB-1868427714-C3","price":9.72,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/1868427714.jpg?v=1789622943","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/foreign-native-an-african-journey","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}