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The author focuses on the writing of Doris Lessing. She discusses Lessing's novel "The Sweetest Dream," and relates it to Lessing's essay collection "African Laughter" which focused on the situation in Zimbabwe. She also states that Lessing's work is post-colonial even though much of it remains distant from African nationalism. She also talks about Lessing's own life in the British African colonies and how it provided material for Lessing's fiction.