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Book · 1937 · Nonfiction

Out of Africa

Isak Dinesen
Modern Library (Penguin Random House) · 399 pages
★ 6.5 editorial score

"I had a farm in Africa," Dinesen begins. Seventeen years below the Ngong Hills end in ruined coffee and a forced sale, and she tells it in prose that never asks for sympathy.

Genre
Autobiography and memoirPastoral
Medium
Memoir
Subject
Colonial lifeAfricaLossMemory
Setting
Kenya
Time
1937

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Quote · 1938

“The African is conditioned, by the cultural and social institutions of centuries, to a freedom of which Europe has little conception, and it is not in his nature to accept serfdom for ever. He realizes that he must fight unceasingly for his own emancipation; for without this he is doomed to remain the prey of rival imperialisms.”

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