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Refugees and resilience: a story of Africa

Jonny Steinberg finds A Man of Good Hope in ‘the asshole of Cape Town’

24 January 2015

9:00 AM

24 January 2015

9:00 AM

A Man of Good Hope Jonny Steinberg

Cape, pp.334, £18.99, ISBN: 9780224094122

I would love to sit in on a Jonny Steinberg interview. Over the years this South African writer has perfected a form of reverse ventriloquism, in which he becomes the mouthpiece for the Africans whose lives intrigue him. I’d like to know how he does it.

The process must require relentless badgering, as interview is piled on interview, memory upon memory.

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Available from the Spectator Bookshop, £15.99 Tel: 08430 600033. Michela Wrong has written books on Kenya (It’s Our Turn to Eat), Eritrea (I Didn’t Do It for You) and Congo (In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz).

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