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As terrible as that sounds, it also appears large swathes of the memoir are completely fabricated, based more on stereotypes of Africa than any experience of Linton’s.
Titled “In Congo’s Shadow,” the book details Linton’s gap year in 1999 during the Second Congo War, and attracted criticism after a excerpt ran in The Telegraph in 2016. In the book, the blonde “anomaly in darkest Africa” describes in terrifying detail how she was almost raped a killed by machete-wielding Hutu rebels:
“Gunshots echoed through to bush and seemed to be getting closer. I tried to face up to the possibility that my life was over,” she writes in one passage. “If I were discovered in my bolthole, I would be raped. I would be cut down. Smirking men with deadened eyes would brutalise me before casting me aside like a rag doll.” “Because I was a young white woman with a British passport I felt particularly vulnerable,” the actress explains.
She also describes an orphan-girl with HIV — a “smiling gap-toothed child with HIV whose greatest joy was to sit on my lap and drink from a bottle of Coca-Cola” — that she cared for during these intense moments.
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https://www.mediaite.com/uncategorized/steve-mnuchins-horrible-wife-also-apparently-wrote-a-fake-memoir-about-living-in-africa/And people wonder why some want to tear down Confederate flags and statues that commemorate abject racists. Drumpf has surrounded himself with these types. The WH is infested with them. The people of this nation have been infested with them too and we have seen them come out of their slime pits. And generations of them have passed on these stereotypes, many of them hatched in Europe, such as the nonsense that this idjit has spewed, throughout this nation's history.
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