Onitsha Author:J. M. G. Le Clezio, Alison Anderson (Translator) A novel on white colonialism in Africa through the eyes of Fintan, a 12-year-old boy who travels to Africa in 1948 with his Italian mother to join the English father he has never met. He meets an African boy his age and participates in the world of the Africans, contrasting it with the world of the whites. Gradually he comes to recog... more »nize the intolerance and brutality of the colonial system.« less