num_pages: 342
description: Morgan Leafy, a carefree British civil servant perennially in search of sexual adventure, must deal with Harvard-educated tribal chiefs, unalterably gentile Englishwomen, and a cursed lightning-struck corpse
language: English
title: A Good Man in Africa
titlecomplete: A Good Man in Africa
characters: Morgan Leafy
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Humor, English Literature, Contemporary, Comedy, Historical Fiction, Africa, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 4891
places: Kinjanja
awards: awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Whitbread Award
category: First Novel, awardedAt: 378720000000
name: Somerset Maugham Award
publisher: William Morrow & Co