In One Era and Out of the Other

Ambassador Glenn Babb argues that the South African Government and Pik Botha should have allowed South Africa to apply its innovation, creativity and solid administration into fostering good relations with Africa instead of following an entirely mistaken path.

Babb regards his book as an important critique and painful reminder of the failure of a group of people more worried about visas for Japanese jockeys, banning Playboy and lamenting pastors in Excelsior sleeping with their domestics than asserting its Africanness and offering its backbone to its continent.