RW Johnson

RW Johnson is an Emeritus Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and was the only South African Rhodes Scholar to return to live in South Africa after the fall of apartheid. He has written thirteen books, scores of academic articles and innumerable articles for the international press. His former students include three members of the British cabinet, an editor of The Economist and a large number of leading academics and journalists. He lives in Cape Town.

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Foreign Native

Foreign Native

In Foreign Native, RW Johnson looks back with affection and humour on his life in Africa. From schooldays in Durban – fresh off the boat from Merseyside – to later years as an academic, director of the Helen Suzman Foundation and formidable political commentator.

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