Out of Africa
by Isak Dinesen
A colonist's love letter to the land she took.
ou want to understand the colonial imagination at its most beautiful and most blind
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Dinesen ran a coffee farm in Kenya for seventeen years and wrote about it with extraordinary lyrical beauty. She loved the land and the people with a genuine passion that was also completely unable to see their full humanity or their right to what she occupied. Read alongside Unbowed and A Grain of Wheat and you get the full picture — three completely different Kenyas occupying the same geography. Worth reading precisely for what it illuminates about the colonial gaze: how love and dispossession can coexist without the lover ever noticing the contradiction.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Kenya • East Africa
- Voice
- An outside perspective on Kenya
- Themes
- After Empire
