{"product_id":"9781868427710","title":"Foreign Native","description":"\u003cp\u003eRW Johnson looks back with affection and humour on his life in Africa. From schooldays in Durban - fresh off the aeroplane 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. Johnson charts his evolution from enthusiastic, left-leaning Africanist to political realist, relating the 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+RW+Johnson\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eRW Johnson\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"RW Johnson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47375637971107,"sku":"9781868427710","price":295.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781868427710_dc9adb79-119b-4cdb-a4f5-3a406118f454.jpg?v=1776604277","url":"https:\/\/graffitibooks.co.za\/products\/9781868427710","provider":"Graffiti Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}