Joyce Cary
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Johnson, a young native in the British civil service, is a clerk to Rudbeck, Assistant District Officer in Nigeria, and imagines himself to be a very important cog of the King's government. He is amusingly tolerant of his fellow Africans, thinking them uncivilized; he is obsessed with the idea of bringing "civilization" to this small jungle station. Johnson loves the white man's ways and cheerily adopts them; he has an enthusiasm that makes his boss...
6) Aissa saved
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The story of an African girl converted to Christianity but still retaining pagan elements in her faith.
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Herself surprised: Beginning her prison sentence, Sara Monday looks back on the foolish mistakes and changing fortunes that led to her incarceration.
To be a pilgrim: Tom Wilcher, a rich Englishman who is treated as a foolish old man by his young relatives, looks back on his life and his unfulfilled spiritual yearnings even as he faces death.
The horse's mouth: The third and most celebrated volume of Joyce Cary's First Trilogy, is perhaps the finest...