Born a colonial in South Africa, Taylor grew up in the 1950s
accustomed to having black servants. When the apartheid state began
to manifest its ugliness, Taylor left for England and began to
write for newspapers including The Times and The Observer. This
book charts his course as he returns to the African continent to
uncover the traces of his past; to find his own 'tribe'. As a
reporter, Taylor has an eye for detail, a good ear for the
emotional nuance of human witness. He also brings a wider
perspective, both from his international experience and his family
background. He interviews blacks and whites, rich and poor, on his
trail through countries including Uganda, Kenya, Malawi and
Zimbabwe; he concentrates especially on the situation of whites who
have chosen to stay, post-independence, in the south of Africa.
Lucid and wide-ranging, it is a book about that most basic of human
themes: belonging. (Kirkus UK)
’Livingstone’s Tribe is excellent… Taylor is an intelligent and stimulating companion’ Financial Times’At the book’s heart is a riveting examination of Livingstone’s tribe… the whites of post-independence Africa’ Independent on Sunday’Taylor’s expedition into the interior of the continent’s colonial past has got everything that such a book should have’ Guardian’Stephen Taylor, a third-generation émigré of British descent, finds a melancholy collection of white misfits and failures… as 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 Mugabe’s Zimbabwe’ Daily Mail’Sights and travel experiences are vividly described and people both from Livingstone’s and from the other tribes are handled particularly well’ Sunday Times
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