A saga of adventure, travel, romance, business and some sales.
Way before e-mails and nosey cell phones appeared and screwed with your mind.
John wrote one report a month, made no phone calls, made his own decisions,
got on with the job…and more….
Africa in the 1960’s was a continent newly ‘Freed from Colonialism’. John was a white, British, expat. – “An old Colonial".
Titled as ‘Marketing Manager, Africa,’ he travelled though some 20 out of the then 42 African countries selling his UK company products.
How he survived, how he did business, how he lived, what he saw, how he was welcomed make for a unique tale.
The saga starts with Ethiopia – a country the colonials liked to describe as “Born before Time”
Rarely visited by outsiders, John gives us an insight, shy of modern political correctness.
How things were: how things got done: Africa as Africa.
You smell the wind in his descriptions and acknowledge the truth of his experiences.