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9. If I recall that was the time

Reply to hermetic (Reply #6)

Sun Jul 16, 2017, 02:38 PM

Jul 2017

of the MauMau uprising, so yeah, African reality was quite different. One of my favorite books back then was Something of Value by Robert Ruarke. It's a terrific story, but it might be offensive to contemporary readers. They made a movie of it with Sidney Poitier and Rock Hudson.

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