A man on the roof of a 70-storey building вЂ“ Wolf Hall, by HilaryВ Mantel October 22, 2021.Can you actually recite a famous poem? Bet youВ canвЂ™t.Horrible lyrics and pitifulВ prose November 10, 2021.Next Post SEVEN CIRCUMSTANCES вЂ“ BOOKS & LITERATURE RECENT POSTS So bongo, bongo, bongo, I donвЂ™t want to leave the CongoД«ingle, bangle, bungle, IвЂ™m so happy in the jungleДonвЂ™t want no bright lights, false teeth, doorbells, landlords That civilization is a thing for me to see He tells the native population that civilization is fineДЄnd three educated savages holler from a bongo tree вЂњEach morning a missionary advertise with neon sign The title refers to a song calledВ вЂњCivilizationвЂќ, written by Bob Hilliard and Carl Sigman, published in 1947, and later included in the 1947 Broadway musical Angel in the Wings.В The song is sometimes also known as вЂњBongo, Bongo, Bongo (I DonвЂ™t Want to Leave the Congo) вЂќВ from theВ first line of the chorus: Reading the afterword, I decided that no-one in their right mind would ever want to go to the Congo, never mind stay there forever, bongos or no bongos. Towards the inexorable conclusion, every fearful moment of her escape and the upsurge in violence are described in tortuous detail.

Initially, reflecting the imperturbable European society, she barely mentions the countryвЂ™s descent into civil war or the inter-racial friction, and the story reads like an exotic travel journal. But now I have to recant because, despite my prejudice, I was engrossed by CecilвЂ™s memoir of 1960s Congo, and I have to concede that she is a skilled storyteller. I had sworn that I would never read another depressing piece of Post-colonial Literature. Bongo Bongo Bongo I DonвЂ™t Wanna Leave the Congo, by Veronica Cecil (memoir) (Kwela Publishers, South Africa, 2009)

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