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Beyond the Malachite Hills deserves to become a classic of its genre: a poignant, evocative, nostalgic account of a remarkable career that was dominated by Africa.' Michael Holman, former Africa Editor, Financial Times 'Jonathan Lawley paints a vivid and convincing picture of solid political, economic and social progress.' Africa Confidential 'For anyone interested in Africa, its recent history and its future, Beyond the Malachite Hills is a must.' Lord Luce 'Most came to love their adopted continent. Some can write. Two of these are Jonathan Lawley and John Hare. Each has an incredible tale to tell. Here is a pair of books that, placed with a decanter of whisky on the bedside table of any Spectator reader's guest bedroom, will have the reading-light burning late into the night - Lawley has an optimistic story to tell here; but this reviewer loved best his tales, told more in the workaday prose of a Wilfred Thesiger than the poetry of a romantic, of a young bachelor bashing his lonely way through bush hardly trodden by whites since David Livingstone passed by, trying to keep in repair a vast and overstretched net of fairly nominal administration, his authority sustained by little more than bravado; and determinedly acculturating himself to the life and language of the people he oversaw.' - Matthew Parris, The Spectator, 11th May 2013

'Lawley's account of the elections in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe could not be bettered.' (Professor Kenneth Ingham) 'an important contribution to the future development of Africa.' (Sir Donald Tebbit) 'A lively and important narrative.' (Anthony Kirk-Greene) 'For anyone interested in Africa...Beyond the Malachite Hills is a must.' (Lord Luce)

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Jonathan Lawley is consultant to the Business Council for Africa, where he continues to make use of his unique experience of Africa as a whole.

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