This Was the Old Chief's Country Random House he'll prove that good intentions

he'll prove that good intentions and bad deeds often go hand in hand and that the highest ideals can sometimes have the deadliest consequences

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This Was the Old Chief's Country Random House he'll prove that good intentionsThe first volume of Doris Lessings Collected African Stories, and a classic work from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. It can be said of all white dominated Africa that it was and still is the Old Chiefs Country. So all the stories I write of a certain kind I think of as belonging under that heading; tales about white people, sometimes about black people, living in a landscape that not so very long ago was settled by black tribes, living