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Nicholas Bennett was eighteen when he
decided to fill the nine months between
leaving Westminster and going up to
Oxford by getting to the place that
seemed to him to be the most remote
in the world-Timbuktu. To raise the
money for the journey he first sold ice
cream on a commission basis in an
English circus and then obtained a part-
time teaching post at Prempah College,
Kumasi, in Ghana. This was the be-
ginning of what must have been one of
the most enterprising and uncushioned
of contemporary solo journeys. His
book has a unique freshness: he never
comments without experience, nor
criticises by alien standards, so that his
vivid picture of contemporary Africa is
most valuable, being filtered through
nothing except his own exceedingly
sharp eye and unbiassed intelligence.