Publisher Simodium Publishers Cape Town First Edition October 1965 Printed in South Africa by Cape and Transvaal Printers Limited Cape Town Category Film Language English Jacquet design by Bent Bjornstad
“ASSIGNMENT AFRICA” is a richly varied book. It is packed with interest, penetrating comments, adventure and pungent humour. The writer, novelist and film director, Donald Swanson, who wrote the best seller “SUNRISE OVER TANESIA” and who directed the international award-winning film “THE MAGIC GARDEN”, has spent most of the last fifteen years writing and filming in all parts of Africa. In “ASSIGNMENT AFRICA” he sets out his experiences and observations on people, places and events in this contentious continent. They range from Mau Mau to black magic, from Nairobi to cape Town, from farce to fear.
Gorgeously eccentric characters appear in these pages. They are keenly observed, as are some of Africa’s political and social problems. There are stories and anecdotes to please every taste and every mood. Profusely illustrated with unique and telling photographs, “ASSIGNMENT AFRICA” is a memorable book that throws a great deal of light into some of Africa’s darkest corners. Above all, it shows that there is still laughter in Africa as loud as the rumbles of the rebellion and social disquiet.
This is a book readers will want for keeps and one they will tell their friends about.
