Summary Of Going Solo By Roald Dahl

The beautiful sounds of Africa, the sights, the fauna, and the hundreds of British moving there for jobs, truly a sight to see. Going Solo, Roald Dahl's memoir of his work in East Africa and his service in the RAF, covers the buildup to World War II and his involvement in it. In the book mention is made of the British colonization of East Africa. British Colonization plays a large role in the memoir as...... Dahl says about British Colonization that," I had never before encountered that peculiar Empire-building breed of Englishmen who spends his whole life working in distant corners of British territory" (Dahl 1). In fact, British colonization of East Africa is important because of how a huge chunk of the memoir is in British controlled Africa
Dahl was there for three weeks there getting to see what Africa had. Amazingly, he had many encounters with the wildlife any many people he met there and many experiences over in East Africa. "East Africa was a long way from home, especially if your contract with the Shell company said that you were to stay out there for three years at a stretch" (1). His time there impacted his memoir greatly and the time he spent working for the Shell company. Dahl's book had many details about the environment of East Africa and how the people lived there and how it was like.

Ultimately, the end of World War II also meant the end of the British colonies in East Africa and Britain suffered a great loss because of the high cost of the war. After the war in 1945 Decolonization began. The colonized lands started to gain their independence from Britain." Between 1945 and 1960, three dozen new states in Africa achieved autonomy or outright independence from their European colonial rulers" ("Decolonization of Asia and Africa, 1945-1960"). The end of this vast empire occurred during 1945 at the end of World War II and ended British controlled