Black Mischief
by Evelyn Waugh
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A biting satire about an African Emperor, educated at an English public school, who unilaterally decides to modernize his backward nation and brings in an English friend assist him, giving him the title Minister for Modernization.
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Black Mischief
August 15, 2002, Back Bay Books
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0316917338 9780316917339
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"WE, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of the Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University, being in this the twenty-fourth year of our life, summoned by the wisdom of Almighty God and the unanimous voice of our people to the throne of our ancestors, do hereby proclaim...""
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