Livingstones Tribe

An extraordinary, passionate and personal journey into Africas past. The most enthralling account out of Africa for years. Daily Mail. Livingstones Tribe is excellentTaylor is an intelligent and stimulating companion. Financial Times At the books heart is a riveting examination of Livingstones tribethe whites of post-independence Africa. Independent on Sunday Taylors expedition into the interior of the continents colonial past has got everything that such a book should have. Guardian Stephen Taylor, a third-generation migr of British descent, finds a melancholy collection of white misfits and failuresas well as a heroic, dwindling clutch of missionaries still holding the line. The catalogue of theft, corruption, murder and superstition that Taylor chronicles makes appalling, fascinating reading. Yet Taylor is no Colonel Blimp, rather an anti-apartheid liberal who fled the old South Africa and welcomed independence for Mugabes Zimbabwe. Daily Mail Sights and travel experiences are vividly described and people both from Livingstones and from the other tribes are handled particularly well. Sunday Times