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    The King's Journal: From the Horse’S Mouth
    The King's Journal: From the Horse’S Mouth
    The King's Journal: From the Horse’S Mouth
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    The King's Journal: From the Horse’S Mouth

    By Kgafela Kgafela II

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    Welcome to The Kings Journal.

    Traditional leadership and the way of life in Africa have been destroyed by postcolonial republican society through an insidious program of political governance and foreign culture, which uses foreign law, foreign language, and black magic to suppress tradition.

    The Kings Journal is a unique expos of African tradition written by an African king who has life experiences in both worlds of tradition on one hand and foreign law in the other.

    The journal is outstanding in its ability to explore the shadow side of law, tradition, and politics that has brought about a clash of cultures in Africa. The conflict of cultures highlighted is responsible for the present-day poverty and other forms of strife in postcolonial Africa. The journal offers deeper understanding of these salient dynamics of history and politics within black society in Southern Africa and traditional ceremonies, with special focus on the rituals of the royal leopard, the coronation of a king, magic and initiation schoolsall presented from the horses mouth of an African king living the experiences.

    Book 1 is subtitled From the Horses Mouth to denote the firsthand nature of the stories told. It consists of several stories within one long narrative extracted from an ongoing journalhence the main title The Kings Journal. The stories are, by themselves, a biography of the king, told in a conversational style in the form of letters to the reader. There is sure entertainment for everyone seeking cultural diversity and a new way of viewing life, be they game hunters, adventurers, horse lovers, lawyers, politicians, philosophers, traditionalists, occultists, shamans, religious people, and the royals of the world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse UK
    Release dateJul 8, 2014
    ISBN9781496985835
    The King's Journal: From the Horse’S Mouth
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    Kgafela Kgafela II

    The author is a royal King in South Africa, born in the USA Washington DC. He rules over one of the wealthiest in minerals and most controversial tribes in Southern Africa called Bakgatla ba Kgafela. The tribe lives in land that straddles two countries, Botswana and South Africa. It has a rich history and tradition that is available for sharing with the world. The author is an experienced constitutional lawyer, who specialised in post appeal remedies within death penalty issues and matters of human rights. He has an LLB law degree from the university of Botswana with 15 years of litigation experience in the High Courts. The author is a spiritual leader of his tribe. He conducts initiation schools and various other traditional ceremonies with his tribe. He loves horses and life in the countryside. Above all else, he loves justice.

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    • 5/5
      When they engaged on their 1773 journey through Scotland together, James Boswell (1740-1795) was of Scottish descent and almost half the age of Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), who was not well travelled and critical of all things Scottish. Boswell is also the author of a complete biography of Johnson, heralded as one of the best biographies ever written. Much of his focus here is on Johnson rather than the tour. He was devoted to Johnson but also proud of his Scottish heritage, and he hoped this journey would bring some happy reunion between the two.I'm not sure I've encountered so extreme an example before of reading something I initially thought detestable and then wound up shelving it among my favourites. Boswell's depiction of Samuel Johnson takes some initial getting used to, when Johnson comes across as full of hot air and voicing judgemental opinions that lack for evidence to back them up. It took me a while to realize Boswell worships the ground Johnson walks on and records virtually every insightful thing Johnson says, whatever the subject. I was trying to read the constant switches in topic as continuous conversation and getting frustrated, until I realized they aren't sewn together. After that I found some patience and was slowly won over. Johnson could quote erudite stuff like nobody's business and take any side of an argument for the sake of having one. It seems this was much admired in him. He didn't like to lose a debate, and would quickly switch to ridiculing the other's position if he felt in danger. Boswell quotes their contemporary Oliver Goldsmith who said there's no use arguing with Johnson, since if he fails to shoot you with his pistol (metaphorically) he'll just knock you down with the butt end of it. Boswell indicates that Johnson read his journal entries as he wrote them, but still doesn't shy from stating where he thinks Johnson was wrong about something he said or did. Sometimes Johnson consequently adds further comments, which Boswell dutifully records. Sometimes Boswell praises Johnson for letting something pass. It's all so layered. There's occasional commentary by Boswell on Johnson's earlier account, offering backing or clarification. It's a reminder that records like these can only be interpreted within the limits of what the author chooses to tell, and shines a light on the value gained by having the two accounts to compare. Boswell earns credit for how well they complement one another, but read Johnson's account first to appreciate it.
    • 3/5
      Boswell's tale of the tour of the highlands by his hero, Samuel Johnson. The book is more about Johnson than Scotland, but still makes fascinating reading almost 250 years later.Read April 2017
    • 4/5
      This classic work provides insight into the body of journals, notes, memoirs, and letters which Boswell tapped in writing his landmark biography of Dr. Johnson. As such, it's value is hard to rank. As a story, it alternates between dry, uneventful days and fascinating events and interactions providing rare insight into rural Scotland in the 1700s. As an historical record, it is sometimes handicapped by Boswell's obvious adoration of his subject - Dr. Johnson. Though Boswell is frequently able to see Johnson's shortcomings, he is almost never critical, but simply treats them as part and parcel of Dr. Johnson's brilliance. This may be accurate, but the lack of personal judgement from Boswell makes him out to be a borderline sycophant.All this being said, one interested in this period in British history, or a contemporaneous record of Boswell and Johnson, or if one simply enjoys an imaginary trip through wild Scotland of the 18th century, this is a very good read. Boswell shares the small and the mundane along with the surprising and enlightening. I was left with a strong urge to personally follow in Boswell and Johnson's footsteps to see just how much has changed, and how much remains of their Scotland.
    • 5/5
      Seriously, does it get any better than this? Sure, it's just Johnson and Boswell riding around, staying with various people and talking to them, but WHAT TALK!There is something about 18th century prose, in general, that makes me happy.
    • 5/5
      In 1773 James Boswell (age 33) convinced his older friend Samuel Johnson (age 64) to go on a 4 month tour of Scotland. Boswell took on the role of tour guide and confidant introducing Johnson to the "lairds" and "chiefs" of Boswell's native Scotland. For Johnson, it was his first trip outside of England. They each wrote a travel book, with Johnson focusing on Scotland, and Boswell on Johnson. Boswell's Tour is something of a literary breakthrough. At the time it was not considered good manners to be too specific about ones personal habits but Boswell often talks about seemingly mundane things that for a modern reader would seem normal in a travelogue but for the day was scandalous. Boswell repeated conversations with well known figures that didn't portray them in a glowing light and this resulted in years of tit-for-tat newspaper editorial attacks and defenses. Later editions would include letters, apologies and defenses. Today with all the personalities long dead it seems like a Hollywood tabloid. In the context of the times, Johnson and Boswell were seen by some critics as outsiders gatecrashing the establishment - Johnson was a provincial "hack" as one Londoner called him, and Boswell was Scottish, damning enough on its own, but with a personal reputation as a "rouge" (ladies man) and heavy drinker (demons that would follow him to the grave). However their reputations as towering figures of the Enlightenment would soon be solidified, further increasing the popularity of this book.As a work of literature Boswell's account is warm and endearing. Johnson and Boswell are Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, respectively. Boswell at once mythologizes Johnson hanging on his every word, a great master who can say no falsehood, and at the same time makes him into a lovable blundering traveler. Certainly Charles Dickens' Mr. Pickwick of the Pickwick Papers was influenced by Boswell's Johnson. As travel literature Boswell's observations of Scottish life are valuable. Boswell had an excellent memory and kept a daily diary so we have very exact details of food and conversation, although Boswell did not think much of scenery or geography. Tour to the Hebrides was a best-seller from its first publication and is still widely read. Its influence is probably hard to quantify, it was partly responsible for popularizing the English tradition of traveling to Scotland which would be so common among the literary set in the late 18th and 19th centuries (and to this day). One can only wonder how many travelers have re-traced Johnson and Boswell on a literary vacation. In the early 20th century a cache of Boswell's unpublished papers were discovered in a castle, among them the complete unedited manuscript of the Tour. This was published in 1936, it is substantially different, with many passages cut from the original restored, it is the better and recommended.
    • 5/5
      the kings journal is very interesting...the writer does not hide anything..he explains everything as it is.
    • 3/5
      I finished this book one month ago, and I find it difficult—without any reading notes—to review it correctly. These are only my general impressions.What I recollect best is the occasional amazing behaviour of Johnson, for instance upon his arrival in Edinburgh, when he settles in an inn and sends a note to Boswell to let him know his arrival. We learn afterwards that Johnson was scandalized by the inn waiter's using his fingers to put a lump of sugar in the lemonade Johnson had ordered. Apparently he would have liked to smash him against the wall for daring doing this.Boswell also made me laugh with his report of the last breakfast they had in the Isles. The house lady asked Boswell who was first up, if Johnson would like to have a cold mutton head for breakfast. Her husband was horrified and tried to persuade her that it was not suitable. But Boswell very maliciously replied that yes, why not, although he knew in advance what would be Johnson's reaction. Then he sat in an armchair and took a book for a countenance. When Johnson came down from his bedroom, he first replied 'No' to the question 'Dr Johnson, have you taken some cold mutton head?'. But, as the house lady misunderstood the answer and insisted, he had to be ruder. In his armchair behind his book, Boswell was smiling.It seemed really fine to travel as they did in the islands and to go from castle to castle—visibly without spending much money. As with Johnson's Journal, this book really incites one to follow the same itinerary to tour the western Isles.

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