African laughter

In the 1980s and early 1990s, Doris Lessing made several visits to her homeland, Zimbabwe, a country from which she had been banned for twenty-five years for her opposition to the government of what was then white Southern Rhodesia. Mingling memory and reportage in vivid detail, Doris Lessing pays passionate and testament to an extraordinary country, its landscape, people and spirit. 'African laughter' is both a shrewd and perceptive portrait of a modern African state emerging from its bloody and colonial history.