29 pages • 58 minutes read
Nadine GordimerA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Mozambique became independent from Portugal in 1975 and was immediately plunged into a brutal civil war between Marxists and anti-communist forces. The political situation in southern Africa was being widely reported when “The Ultimate Safari” was published in 1989; it is set one year prior in 1988 as white, minority-ruled South Africa continued to fund anti-Marxist guerrillas in Mozambique in their fight against its leftist government. These are the so-called “bandits” in “The Ultimate Safari.”
While the Cold War raged elsewhere on the planet, in southern Africa, the fear of communism (partly due to its link to Black empowerment movements) was a driving force in South African political circles. South Africa was still ruled by a white minority fearful of communism and wary of a repeat of the political turmoil in nearby Zimbabwe and Mozambique, both of which fell to communism and expelled many of the former white leaders. When Mozambique's Marxist president, Samora Machel, died in a plane crash in 1986, reports suggested that South Africa was behind the supply of materials in the downing of the plane. The South African government openly supported the Marxist rebels, resulting in a prolonged and bloody civil war in Mozambique.
The South African policy of destabilization along their north-western boarder resulted in the death of thousands of Africans, mostly farm, fishing, and mining laborers who lived in rural communities.
By Nadine Gordimer
Burger's Daughter
Nadine Gordimer
July's People
Nadine Gordimer
Jump and Other Stories
Nadine Gordimer
None to Accompany Me
Nadine Gordimer
Once Upon a Time
Nadine Gordimer
Six Feet of the Country
Nadine Gordimer
The Conservationist
Nadine Gordimer
The Moment Before the Gun Went Off
Nadine Gordimer
The Pickup
Nadine Gordimer
The Train From Rhodesia
Nadine Gordimer