Dimensions
138 x 205 x 38mm
Based on the letters and extensive diaries of Stewart Gore-Browne, The Africa House is the true account of one man's African dream - the tragedy and burden of its reality, against the backdrop of his hopeless loves and the changing times. In a remote spot in Northern Rhodesia, Gore-Browne chose to build the majestic house of his childhood fantasies, complete with tower, library, rose gardens, orchards and uniformed staff to serve champagne dinners. Here at Shiwa Ngandu he strove to create his own Utopia and find love with Lorna, an orphan girl less than half his age. And all the while he was becoming increasingly caught up in the country's struggle for independence. This is, most of all, the story of his house, once a magnificent testament to the power and arrogance of colonials in Africa, but now abandoned, inhabited only by bats and spiders and destined perhaps to become nothing more than a forgotten ruin of a bygone empire.
