Dark Star Safari - Theraux goes on a overland safari from Cairo to Cape Town and reminisces how Africa changed since he was teaching there. A scathing critique of modern aid and charity business which does little more than feed corruption and create indifference among Africans. Up there with Kingdom by the Sea among his best books.
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Drago
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I have come over all religious, so I am now reading the bible.
This is an exceptional book and my second read years later.
Most people are aware of the battle of Dine Bien Phu where the natives seeking independence from the colonial masters won a convention battle rather than thru guerrilla warfare. It led to the demise of the French in Indochina.
British Author Martin Windrow pulls together the various dynamics to paint the picture. The dynamics include oppression and exploitation of the working class by the coloniser as well local businessmen, leaders who worked with the French. So it not just battle strategy and tactics.
Most people are aware of the battle of Dine Bien Phu where the natives seeking independence from the colonial masters won a convention battle rather than thru guerrilla warfare. It led to the demise of the French in Indochina.
British Author Martin Windrow pulls together the various dynamics to paint the picture. The dynamics include oppression and exploitation of the working class by the coloniser as well local businessmen, leaders who worked with the French. So it not just battle strategy and tactics.
