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...brothers" are an oddly matched pair of students at Oxford: stocky, crew-cut Bob McNair from Canada and tall, black Daudi Mukasa from Uganda. Both view the great world of Europe with the eyes of provincials, but where McNair sees purpose and proportion, Mukasa finds only disillusionment and decay. It is one of the book's first ironies that Mukasa, who rejects Europe, is more successful in terms of popularity and girls than McNair, who loves...
Ratty Huts. But when both young men meet again in Africa, the tables are turned. McNair unwillingly inherits the mantle of white superiority, while Mukasa, despite his Oxford degree, is just another black in the opinion of white settlers and primitive tribesmen. Author Stacey sends the "brothers" off on a long expedition to soaring, snow-crested Ruwenzori, the fabled Mountains of the Moon. As they fight their way through bamboo forests and up mist-shrouded crags, the clash of culture, personality and race is heightened...
...C.N.S. Mukasa of Uganda, like a Zen master suggesting but never defining, described the African personality as "mystical and yet very tangible to us." As it emerges from colonial rule, Africa feels a compelling need to claim its own place among the world's peoples, he said. However, the Balliol-educated intellectual cautioned against "throwing away" all traces of the colonial inheritance, for Africa will develop an eclectic civilization...
...issue of pan-Africanism, Mukasa urged a go-slow policy as new nations consider various schemes of regional and even continental union. "First," he said, "the national house must be put in order...
...role of the Arab northern tier in a pan-African future, and possible tribal and regional conflicts in the developing continent. When a girl asked if Communism posed a threat to Uganda and what was being done to combat its influence, others in the audience hissed, and Mukasa smilingly said that Communism finds "no fertile ground" in his country...