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...Time to Laugh, by Laurence Thompson. The lighthearted story of poor Gadein, a gawky African adolescent, and his triumph over both his tribe and the British army (TIME, April...
...Time to Laugh, by Laurence Thompson. The lighthearted story of poor Gadein, a gawky African adolescent, and his triumph over both his tribe and the British army (TIME, April...
...Time to Laugh, by Laurence Thompson. The lighthearted story of poor Gadein, a gawky African adolescent, and his triumph over both his tribe and the British army (TIME, April...
...army is not all bad. A native non-com accurately sizes up Gadein and helps him over the rougher spots. His British commanding officer likes him and protects him. But Gadein, in a world run by discipline, is like a giraffe staked out in a suburban garden. Inexorably, he slips down in the military social scale to latrine orderly. Inevitably he is court-martialed on false charges, convicted and sent to a detention center...
...Father's Right. In the end, even the British military realize that Gadein is not the stuff that armies are made of. Released and discharged, he makes the long trek from Cairo to his native village in Kenya. In retrospect, army life becomes just a great laugh. In the native villages, he makes a hit by simply imitating the gaits of his British officers. And, home at last, his army pay buys him a bride and a great feast. For once even his father approves of him, and allows Gadein to sit on his right. And when...