Thinking black; 22 years without a break in the long grass of Central ...

OUR AFRICAN APPRENTICESHIP 61
a man who will never really be in Africa because Africa
never really gets into him.
But mere negation is not the worst part of the story.
For positively here is a white man who must be somebody
in Africa, so, dissembling this much-lacking in-streaming
flood of pure negro ideas, he pumps up his poor English
counterfeits from the deeps of his British breast. Thus,
too drearily often, English idiom is domesticated on African
soil, and the user of it, though he lives for fifty years in
the land, will never really to his last day be in Africa.
"Bantu of the boots," is their phrase for this wooden
Anglo-African speech.