'Still None the Wiser' is the final instalment of a memoir sub-titled 'A Mid-Century Passage, 1932 - 1967.' Part travel, part biographical memoir, part history. It is as much a social and political record of the closing period of colonial West Africa as an account of the quirks and foibles of the British (and other) expatriates at the end of Empire. In 1954 the author aged 22, thwarted in love in London, joined an often eccentric group of expatriates who ran the oldest colonial Bank in West Africa. In Ghana and in Nigeria he experienced the passing of an era. Eric Robson the TV presenter...
'Still None the Wiser' is the final instalment of a memoir sub-titled 'A Mid-Century Passage, 1932 - 1967.' Part travel, part biographical memoir, par...