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Pieces of Africa

By Jeremy O’Kasick

He had awoken to a journalist’s dream assignment. In August 1998, British author and book critic Giles Foden journeyed to the tropical isles of Zanzibar off the East African coast to write for a travel magazine. Unified with mainland Tanzania, the semi-autonomous state had recently become a growing tourist haven and had long inspired exotic tales from Western explorers and writers.… return to article

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    The book sounds interesting and I can’t imagine the mindset of editors not willing to “take a chance” on a book like that.  I’d buy it.  Is it assumed that all the “Damn Yankees” are too insecure to hear negative comments about our foreign policy?  Heck, I’m usually making those kinds of comments… 

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