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Prose as unadorned as Solzhenitsyn or Hemingway.'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I can still recall Xuma almost 20 years later ... A beautiful book.'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An unsung gem, amazing ... 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Their meeting inducts this stranger, Udomo, into London's revolutionary community of exiled African activists: the start of a life-changing journey. 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