description: Morgan Leafy had high hopes when he first headed out to the small African nation of Kinjanja to serve as Her British Majesty's representative. But once there, Leafy's dreams of professional advancement and personal happiness soon fade: this son of an airport catering manager finds himself overtaken on the career ladder by other, newer recruits to the diplomatic corps who come from the right family and attended the right schools. What's worse, the girl of his dreams has just become engaged to someone younger, thinner, and better connected. And if all this weren't enough to make a career civil servant miserable, Leafy is also being blackmailed by a representative of one of Kinjanja's many political parties who has presented him with a puzzling task: get to know the Scottish medical doctor at a local university.  Author William Boyd has written about Africa before, most notably in his bestselling novel Brazzaville Beach. In A Good Man in Africa, Boyd spins a darkly comic tale of political corruption, revolution, sexual misadventure, blackmail, and death. By novel's end, Leafy may not have become a better man--or even a much wiser one--but he has acquired a kind of dignity and gritty courage for which he is well suited.
language: English
title: Good Man In Africa Film Tie In
titlecomplete: Good Man In Africa Film Tie In
characters: Morgan Leafy
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Novels, English Literature, Comedy, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Humor, Africa, Contemporary
ratings_count: 4891
places: Kinjanja
awards: awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Whitbread Award
category: First Novel, awardedAt: 378720000000
name: Somerset Maugham Award
publisher: Penguin UK