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Azania [əˈzɑːnɪə əˈzɑːnjə] n (Placename) another name (used esp by many Black political activists) for South Africa [perhaps from Arabic Adzan East Africa] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Think what you will about the late Ronald Reagan, he never bet the ship of state on a self-evident con, and in foreign affairs, he was never outfoxed or stolen blind by the likes of the favorite nephew or grieving widow of a former Deputy Assistant Sub-Minister of Finance in Evelyn Waugh's Azania. For, with all his unflattering depictions of Africa and the Africans, he is equally, if not more vicious, when he is pillorying the upper-crust British society, from the ineffectual Lord Courteney, head of the British legation, who is more concerned with his afternoon tea than the country going up in flames around him, to the doddering British ladies who come to Azania to save the animals and end up in the midst of a riot. Incident in Azania," though it uses the setting and some of the characters of Black Mischief, was not, from the evidence of the novel's manuscript, ever intended to be part of the longer work but is a kind of jeu d'esprit based on a story about a faked kidnapping in China. |
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