Jeremy Harding
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 2 Jul
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These things would in general circulation among anyone in Africa who benefited from a metropolitan education.
And if you could get out and get to Paris or get to Lisbon, a lot of people did get to Lisbon.
You were going to find yourself immersed in these traditions and they were traditions for everybody.
They didn't simply have the mark of European intelligence kind of franked on them.
They were available.
You could play around with them and see what could be done, whether it was in writing or whether it was in, you know, the plastic arts.
I don't know about Bacon.
I mean, it's interesting.
I didn't even know the reason you baked it.
Actually, I did, but yeah, yeah.
What do you suspect?
Yeah, I mean, I think that's right.
I hadn't thought of it like that, but this writer, Luis Bernardo, his stories are satires, they're little satires.
He never wrote...
There is only one other book, and it's not been translated, and he wrote it, he's written it very recently, and he's a much older man now than he was.
But in the book We Shot Manji Dog and Other Stories, the satire rises to the level of parody on many occasions.
It's parodying the administration, the Portuguese administration, but it's also parodying the way in which, and clarifying the way in which the pecking order is invented under colonial rule.
who belongs where, according to which caste, according to what particular shade of skin pigment, and so on and so forth.
It's brilliantly done.
And yes, deeply spontaneously interested in modernism, and spontaneously perhaps susceptible to skepticism, as you would be if you were
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