Recalling the blunders that led to the island's defeat in early 1942, he wrote, «In 70 days of surprises, upsets and stupidities, British colonial society was shattered, and with it all the assumptions of the Englishman's superiority.» (fortune.com)
In that film, the actor played Protée, an intelligent and cultured African servant erotically drawn to his married Caucasian master (and she to him), but bound by the confines of a bigoted colonial society. (rottentomatoes.com)
I think that Beryl was shaped by the surprisingly loose attitudes towards marital fidelity in the Kenya colonial society. (bookbrowse.com)