‘With all that has been written about Africa, hardly has anything been said about the most significant people of all - the African leaders, revolutionaries one moment, Prime Ministers the next. This unusual novel, written with a close and sympathetic knowledge, gives a fascinating insight into these men... It is a dispassionate, critical book, without the bitterness or self-pity which obscures much African writing. Here, thank goodness, is an African book which is not all about race, in which there are good whites and bad blacks, and where the hard human problems are not clouded by sentiment.’