North of South: An African Journey (Penguin Modern Classics)
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North of South: An African Journey (Penguin Modern Classics)
Customer reviews (10)
1 December 2013Where are the Africans?
What is missing from Siva Naipaul's account of Africa is Africans.
11 March 2011An interesting read
I read this while living in Nairobi in the 1980's.
19 March 2010North of South is really East...
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23 January 2008Too verbose and critical
As an East African Asian, I was really looking forward to reading this book.
2 January 2008A Cynical and Sad African Travelogue
~North of South: An African Journey~ is succinct and controversial travelogue by an Indian expatriate to the African continent.
26 August 2005Naipaul's glance at post-Colonial Africa
Shiva Naipaul's _North of South: An African Journey_ is the most cynical book I've ever read.
12 February 2005Sadly neglected and misunderstood masterpiece
This is a wonderfully written book; Naipaul's proses flows effortlessly across the page, the connexion between thought and word is seemless.
16 February 2002African Travelogue
I'm trying very hard to figure out how I can review this book without coming across as an ignorant, bubble-headed liberal or a rabid racist.
25 June 1999Wonderful
The book's humor will make you laugh a little uneasily, like the best of satire.
24 October 1998An honest, detailed look at Africa in the late 1970's
Naipaul's trip to Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia in the late 1970's is recounted with a novelist's eye for amusing detail and a serious journalist's ability to discuss government policies and their social ramifications.