Mahatma Grafton goes all the way to Cameroon in search of a story in Lawrence Hill’s media satire Some Great Thing (Turnstone).
The book is set in Winnipeg in the 1980s and Manitobans are battling over bilingualism. It all makes for good news stories but Mahatma wonders whether journalism is really his life’s calling.
He has made a friend of a reporter from Cameroon, been adopted by an eccentric welfare activist and broken some major stories. In these final instalments a trip to Cameroon brings everything to a head.
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Episode 13: Yoyo returns home to Cameroon and Mahatma follows.
Episode 14: Mahatma’s editor twists the stories he's filing from Cameroon.
Episode 15: Mahatma becomes a news story himself when he's deported.
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