Naipaul, then a visiting scholar at the university. While at Makerere, Theroux began his three-decade friendship with novelist V. He then moved to Uganda to teach at Makerere University, where he wrote for the magazine Transition (including the article 'Nkrumah the Leninist Czar.') While there, he helped a political opponent of Hastings Banda escape to Uganda, for which he was expelled from Malawi and thrown out of the Peace Corps. After he finished his university education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, he joined the Peace Corps and taught in Malawi from 1963 to 1965.

Theroux was born in Medford, Massachusetts, the son of Catholic parents, a French-Canadian father and an Italian mother. He was awarded the 1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel The Mosquito Coast. Theroux has also published numerous works of fiction, some of which were made into feature films. Paul Edward Theroux is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best known work is, perhaps, The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), a travelogue about a trip he made by train from Great Britain through Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, through South Asia, then South-East Asia, up through East Asia, as far east as Japan, and then back across Russia to his point of origin. Currently-Hawaii and Cape Cod, Massachusetts.In a new postscript, Theroux recounts the dramatic events of a return to Africa to visit Zimbabwe. What results is an insightful meditation on the history, politics, and beauty of Africa and its people, and 'a vivid portrayal of the secret sweetness, the hidden vitality, and the long-patient hope that lies just beneath the surface' ( Rocky Mountain News). Gauging the state of affairs, he talks to Africans, aid workers, missionaries, and tourists. In the course of his epic and enlightening journey, he endures danger, delay, and dismaying circumstances. In Dark Star Safari the wittily observant and endearingly irascible Paul Theroux takes readers the length of Africa by rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, cattle truck, armed convoy, ferry, and train. Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town

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