Word: rapscallions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cringe Benefits. Achebe tells his story through the mouth of Odili Samalu, a sprightly rapscallion-part idealist, part young man on the make-whom it would be tempting to call a colored Candide, except that Odili has no innocence at all, only a naiveté that makes a farce both of his convictions and his ambition. He is, in fact, perhaps the most engaging character in fiction about Africa since the hero of Joyce Gary's Mister Johnson, who was factotum to a white colonial official...
...favorite brothel and joined one of the girls in duets on the piano. She protected Rogers, she admits, with the devotion of a tigress, and she is protecting him still. But out of her book's gushing prose Rogers emerges as a remarkably earthy personality, part rapscallion, part Robin Hood...