I'm going to write a different kind of autobiography. It will be less than half the length of my original autobiography, and it will detail the links of cause and effect between what happened and the further outcomes. The writing will be quite specifically feminist, in showing how gender relations were poisoned by a social system that was short on adequate attention to social welfare. We shall go behind the scenes that seem to shout out their social inevitability, to see how things could have been different if only allowances had been made at a social and institutional level.
This book will also question the preposterous notion that is still generally well entertained in polite circles, that white Africans spent their days swanning beside swimming pools whilst humble servants brought them cocktails and caviar. This is a myth spun by those who were themselves closer to the creature comforts of the first world, who imagined ways of life that barely existed in Africa.
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