{"product_id":"absurd-tales-from-africa-1","title":"Absurd Tales from Africa","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn his book \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA Night in Buganda\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTales from Post-Colonial Africa (2014)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, consisting of one hundred and forty-four tales, the author struggled to make sense of the years he spent in Uganda in the nineteen-sixties. Democracy in that newly independent country was moving inexorably towards dictatorship. You could feel it happening. He and his fellow aid workers were told they were doing a good job but doubts assailed him. Things were falling apart. Was the effort invested about to be wasted?\u003cbr\u003eWriting the first book helped him to put some of the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle together. In this book, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAbsurd Tales from Africa\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, he makes no such attempt to go any further. He explores gleefully the genres of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003egrotesque and the absurd\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. The reader is invited to go with the surreal flow and, perhaps, to enjoy the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ehumour\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Robert Gurney","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58675198623904,"sku":null,"price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/4287\/4272\/files\/71jUIDr4WmL._SL1360.jpg?v=1786433954","url":"https:\/\/blackbookswholesale.com\/products\/absurd-tales-from-africa-1","provider":"Black Books Wholesale ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}