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In 1982 Lessing is filled with a sense of discombobulation—she is back in "the streets of the town that was once my big city" and nothing is as it once was—the physical and psychological effects of the war are still visible in the land and in the faces of people, white and black, she meets (African Laughter, p. 15). Immediately, she is plunged into nostalgic reverie, and recounts A F R I C A N episodes from her childhood days with her family (mother, father, brother) camping in the vast bush that spread across so much of Rhodesia.
Reproduced by permission. —Shoppers in outdoor market, Nigeria, 1973, photograph by Owen Franken. © Owen Franken/Corbis. Reproduced by permission. —Girl at desk, Lagos, Nigeria, 1986, photograph by Jerry Cooke. © Jerry Cooke/Corbis. Reproduced by permission. —Kikuyu women, Samburu National Reserve, Kenya, 1980s, pho- tograph by David Bartuff. © David Bartuff/Corbis. Reproduced by permission. —Theodore Roosevelt, photograph. © Bettmann/Corbis. Reproduced by permission. —Yoruba men, Nigeria, 1973, photograph by Owen Franken.
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