Robert M. (shotokanchef) reviewed on + 813 more book reviews
Ostensibly a spoof on modernization in Africa, this novel would probably be criticized, or even banned, as being politically in appropriate. It gets off to a slow start while the author introduces characters and sets the stage for this bureaucratic farce: the modernization of an African kingdom. By mid point he is under full throttle with absurdities rivaled by few. A progenitor of Catch 22? Several satirical episodes are exceptionally biting: the organization of the Ministry of Modernization, boots for the Army, the national museum, handspun currency, the birth control fiasco, animal cruelty, and the vitamin banquet. This is a kingdom won by revolution and finally lost through it.
