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Louise Linton’s memoir about her year in Zambia sparks outrage with white savior clichés

Scottish actress Louise Linton’s memoir In Congo’s Shadow: One Girl’s Perilous Journey to the Heart of Africa, that details her 1999 gap year in Zambia, is being slammed by critics, especially Zambians, as being not only dripping in white savior complex — as in having a patronizing, oversimplifying and colonialist narrative — but also fabricated. The alleged lie...