By Nadine Gordimer
James Bray, an English colonial administrator who was once expelled from a important African state for siding with its black nationalist leaders, is invited again ten years later to hitch within the country's independence celebrations. As he witnesses the factionalism and violence that erupt as innovative beliefs are subverted through ambition and greed, Bray is once more compelled to settle on aspects, a decision that turns into either his triumph and his undoing.
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