Fionnáin reviewed Black Mischief by Evelyn Waugh
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3 stars
Sometimes flawed, often funny, enjoyable satire about the way the west views the world.
Paperback, 320 pages
English language
Published Aug. 15, 2002 by Back Bay Books.
A biting satire about an African Emperor, educated at an English public school, who unilaterally decides to modernize his backward nation and brings in an English friend assist him, giving him the title Minister for Modernization.
Sometimes flawed, often funny, enjoyable satire about the way the west views the world.