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Article: Back to Africa
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- Jerusalem Post
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- May 5, 1995
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Haim Chertok
Jerusalem Post
05-05-1995
THE ELECTRONIC ELEPHANT: A Southern African Journey by Dan Jacobson. London, Hamish Hamilton. 373 pp. 17.99.
Professor of English at University College, London, accomplished novelist, Dan Jacobson grew up in Kimberley at a time when it still exuded the presence of Cecil Rhodes. As soon as he could, one gathers, Jacobson fled.
The Electronic Elephant records a nostalgic return to the terrain he had once considered hopelessly provincial, but it also purports to be something more: a pilgrimage to mythic Africa which, Jacobson claims, has long haunted his imagination. "Long after I had come to live in London, however, I used to dream insistently of ...