A Guest of Honour
A British administrator expelled ten years earlier for taking the nationalists' side is invited back for the independence celebrations of the central African country he once helped govern, and cannot simply attend and leave. Commissioned to report on schools, he moves between the president who was his protege and the union radical who thinks the revolution already sold. Gordimer's longest and most sustained argument about what follows liberation.
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