NOT "ACCOUNT DEVOT EXCLUSIVELY...

NOT "ACCOUNT DEVOT EXCLUSIVELY TO FACT"

"An account devot exclusively to fact," mercy First wrote in the introduction to her reflection of coups d'etat in Africa, "would ready an Africa that is desiccated and dull" (ix). To what alternatives to "fact" then did First incline differently in the research, organization, and writing of her 1970 part Barrel of a Gun, published in the United States as Power in Africa? First goe onward to maintain that she "tried to devise something of the way the community see, and say things about, their condition," and to