"UHURU" BY ROBERT RUARK

"UHURU" BY ROBERT RUARK, HARDCOVER, 1962 FIRST EDITION, NO DUSTJACKET, 528 PAGES, TAPE REPAIRS TO THE SPINE, NO NAMES OR INSCRIPTIONS, IN GOOD CONDITION

"Uhuru"-freedom-is the one word most used and abused in Africa today, and it is upon the many highly contradictory individual interpretations of "Uhuru" that Robert Ruark has based this superb novel. Against a vast, turbulent background of present-day Africa, Ruark tells his gripping story of a white colonial, Brian Dermott, and his gradual disintegration in the face of the tensions and horror now tearing that continent apart. It is a true story. The characters may be technically fictional, but there is nothing in Uhuru that that has not happened, is not happening, or will not happen in the near future, for even as he wrote the book, Ruark found his fiction becoming fact, and the truth itself, however unlikely it seemed, becoming world headlines from week to week.