Joyce Cary

Míster Johnson, un joven empleado africano del puesto colonial de Fada, en Nigeria, lleva una vida feliz. Ha conocido a Bamu, la muchacha más hermosa del lugar, y su empleo para la administración colonial le confiere un estatus privilegiado. Y aunque la comunidad indigena y la administracion britanica se confabulen contra el -las deudas lo acosan y sus jefes lo hostigan- nada podran contra su felicidad.

This book is Chester Nimmo's story, told in his own words. It is the tale, however, not of his fortuitous marriage into the local gentry and subsequent political success but of his childhood and

This is a reprint of Joyce Cary's first novel about Christianity versus paganism in Nigeria. It is a spare and violent book, as striking and stylized as Cary's later novels. Aissa, a foolish, emotional native girl, is hounded from her village when she has a son by a convict and she takes refuge in Christianity at a nearby mission. During a drought, the Christians are hunted down and Aissa is jailed as a witch, loses her child, escapes death and finally renounces Jesus. She is then persuaded by fanatic native friends to join another crusade against her village and burn their shrine. In the grim religious war that follows many are hideously killed and Aissa dies in a martydom closely paralleled by that of a pagan mother earlier. Mr. Cary's point is that their pagan religion, and through Aissa and a kaleidoscope of natives of all shades of civilization, he shows vividly many aspects of this difficult grafting of religions. It is a shocking and provocative story, heightened by the cool objectivity of its approach.

Mister Johnson, un joven empleado africano en el puesto colonial de Fada, en Nigeria, lleva una vida feliz. Ha conocido a Bamu, la muchacha más hermosa del lugar, y su empleo para la administración local le confiere un estatus privilegiado. Y aunque la c