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(2012) British colonial realism in Africa, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
During a visit to Blackpool many years ago, I went with some hospitable friends to the Winter Garden where there were several wild animals on exhibition. I noticed that a nurse having two children with her, could not keep her eyes from the spot where I stood, looking at first with a sort of suspicious, if not terrified curiosity. After a while she heard me speak to one of the gentlemen who were with me. Apparently surprised and reassured by this evidence of a genuine humanity, she called to the children who were interested in examining a leopard, “Look, look, there is a black man and he speaks English.“1
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Shapple Spillman, D. (2012). The uncanny object lessons of Mary Kingsley and Edward Blyden, in British colonial realism in Africa, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 74-122.
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