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More Truth, Lies and Propaganda: in Africa Kindle Edition

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More unbelievable tales from behind the camera lens, as Lucinda and her ‘rainbow crew’ travel across South Africa. They meet Mandela, endure a terrifying helicopter ride and empathize with the forlorn Bushmen. There are riots, an abandoned patient, a ram with an identity crisis and a house that disappears. Their stories are both hilarious and heartbreaking, revealing the truth about what goes on behind the scenes in the media. This book proves that propaganda is alive and well on television screens across the world.

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More Truth, Lies and Propaganda: In Africa is a non-fiction memoir written by Lucinda E. Clarke. Clarke is a professional writer, textbook author and columnist. She has also scripted, directed and produced a number of videos when she ran her video production company and, at one point, had her own radio show. A native of Great Britain, Clarke spent many years in Durban, South Africa. When she repatriated to London, over twenty years after she had first left, she was miserable and felt out of place. Her body was no longer acclimated to the damp chill of England, and she missed the warmth, the brilliant blue skies, and the ambiance of adventure and danger to which she had grown accustomed. Unable to find any sort of work in London, Clarke decided to ask her former employer for more work and was thrilled to get a positive response. She and her daughter, who missed her school and friends back in Durban, were on their way home, and, best of all, there were plenty of scripts waiting for her to work on.

Lucinda E. Clarke's non-fiction memoir, More Truth, Lies and Propaganda: In Africa, is a fascinating account of the author's work as a freelancer and then as one of the heads of a video production company. It became immediately obvious to me that Clarke loves Africa, and that I would be learning quite a lot about the different peoples and lifestyles found there. Much of the memoir details how videos are put together, made whole from a series of pieces that are seamlessly edited and joined. Some of the tricks and techniques are humorous to read about as she and her crew had people act out roles for the camera, often paying them for their services with lollipops. Much of the book, however, gives the reader an insider's look into the dire situation Africans find themselves in with the HIV/AIDS crisis. I was stunned to read of a hospital where it was forbidden to test for the virus and saddened to read of the misconceptions that are still rampant about the virus and how it's contracted and spread. Clarke shares a unique historical view of Africa in More Truth, Lies and Propaganda, and it's a thought-provoking and illuminating one. More Truth, Lies and Propaganda: In Africa is most highly recommended.

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Lucinda E Clarke has been a professional writer for the last 30 years, scripting for both radio and television. She's had numerous articles published in several magazines and currently writes a monthly column in a local publication. She once had her own newspaper column, until the newspaper closed down, but says this was not her fault! She has won over 20 awards for scripting, directing, concept and producing, and had two educational textbooks published. Sadly these did not make her the fortune she dreamed of, to allow her to live in the manner to which she would like to be accustomed. Lucinda has also worked as an announcer on radio (on one occasion with a bayonet at her throat) appeared on television, and met and interviewed some of the world's top leaders. She set up and ran her own video production company, making a variety of programmes, from advertisements to corporate to drama documentaries on a vast range of subjects. Altogether she has lived in eight different countries, run the 'worst riding school in the world', and cleaned toilets to bring the money in. When she handled her own divorce, Lucinda made legal history in South Africa. She gives occasional talks and lectures to special interest groups and finds retirement the most exhausting time of her life so far but says there is still so much to see and do, she is worried she won't have time to fit it all in.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00VF0S3RG
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Umhlanga Press; 1st edition (March 29, 2015)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 29, 2015
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2243 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 241 pages

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Lucinda E Clarke was born in Dublin but has lived in 8 other countries to date. She wanted to write but was railroaded into teaching. She fell into other careers; radio announcer, riding school owner, sewing giant teddy bears. She began scriptwriting professionally in 1986 winning over 20 awards. She also wrote mayoral speeches, company reports, drama documentaries, educational programmes, adverts, news inserts, court presentations, videos for National Geographic, cookery programmes and street theatre to name but a few!

She lectured in scriptwriting, had her own column in various publications, and wrote articles for national magazines. She was commissioned for two educational books by Heinemann and Macmillan, and book reports for UNESCO and UNICEF.

She set up and ran her own video production company in South Africa.

"Walking Over Eggshells" was her first self-published book, an autobiography describing the emotional abuse she suffered from early childhood and subsequent travels and adventures.

She published her second book a novel, "Amie: African Adventure" in July 2014, which was a #1 bestseller in genre on both sides of the Atlantic.

Lucinda's third book "Truth, Lies, and Propaganda", was followed by "More Truth, Lies and Propaganda" - memoirs about her career in the print and broadcast media, highlighting South Africa and its people.

"Amie Savage Safari" is the 5th in the Amie in Africa award-winning series - the world's most reluctant and incompetent spy is in trouble again.

In 2019 Lucinda changed genre and published the first in a series of psychological thrillers. “A Year in the life of Leah Brand” was followed by “A Year in the Life of Andrea Coe.” Book 3 is due out in September 2020.

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Patrick

A superb book

Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2015

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More truth Lies and Propaganda, takes up nicely from where Truth Lies and Propaganda left off. I picked this one up purely on the basis of how much I enjoyed reading the first book and I was not to be disappointed. Lucinda E Clarke is one of those writers who can tell a story effortlessly in a way that just carries you along with her adventures. I have to say she is fast becoming one of my favourite authors. The book revolves around a period of her life as she returns to work in Africa and she uses her natural writing ability to not just recount events but to entertain along the way. I have no doubt she is an excellent raconteur and I felt as though I was sitting around a dinner table with her as she told me of her life and experiences in this truly excellent book. Her skill is not in telling extraordinary tales but in making often ordinary real life stories come to life and it is in the smaller details of each story that I often found myself most enthralled. I cannot recommend this book and indeed the previous one highly enough. If your next book purchase is from the pen of Lucinda E Clarke you will have made a wise decision indeed. A thoroughly deserved 5 stars out of 5 from me.

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Mary Schmidt

More Truth, Lies and Propaganda: in Africa

Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2016

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I just finished reading this well written book and my review follows the author’s blurb found on Amazon.
“More unbelievable tales from behind the camera lens, as Lucinda and her ‘rainbow crew’ travel across South Africa. They meet Mandela, endure a terrifying helicopter ride and empathize with the forlorn Bushmen. There are riots, an abandoned patient, a ram with an identity crisis and a house that disappears. Their stories are both hilarious and heartbreaking, revealing the truth about what goes on behind the scenes in the media. This book proves that propaganda is alive and well on television screens across the world.”
Clarke has written and enlightening memoir of her trip in South Africa with her media company documenting the entire way. Clarke spins and weaves humor throughout, from meeting Nelsen Mandela and into the bush with the bush men. This narrative is highly detailed and certainly a great read for those who haven’t actually ‘lived’ in South Africa. Not all is sparkling and glittery; and certainly not bullet ridden doors of schools and lack of sanitation combined with AIDS and other various details of South African life. I will leave details about South African politics and traditional medicine usage for those who read after me.

Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2015

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Lucinda E Clarke knows Africa. You cannot know a country if you only travel it as a tourist. I know that due to having traveled while working and mixing with the people of my own and other countries and comparing my experiences with that of the average tourist traveler.

I'd prefer to read Lucinda E Clarke's stories of Africa than one of those officials travel books that does not allow you to get close up, close in, to the real Africa, its people and the dreams, laws and superstitions that govern them.

More Truth, Lies and Propaganda: in Africa is a fantastic read and I highly recommend it.

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Colin P.

Lucinda E Clarke describes her personal experiences of living and working in South Africa with insight and a good sprinkling of

Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2016

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A very interesting and refreshing read about behind the scenes life in South Africa. Lucinda E Clarke describes her personal experiences of living and working in South Africa with insight and a good sprinkling of humour without being patronising or bias.I recognised and related to many issues she writes about having lived in Africa and can qualify that this book is an accurate account of how it was during her time there. Well worth the 5 stars!

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Joann R. Greene

Not as good as her other books

Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2017

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I've read quite a few of Lucinda E. Clarke's books and have enjoyed them all. This one was a bit of a let down from her others. I can't really pinpoint it other than to say that there were chapters that really didn't interest me at all. I'm not into what goes on behind the cameras to make a program. She goes to a lot of rural schools and does filming there and those were the highlights of the book. Reading about the schools and the hospitals make me realize how fortunate most of us are. Lucinda is an excellent writer.

Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2016

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This book will pull you deep inside the heart and soul of Africa. Written in a graceful and flowing style you will find yourself entranced by the setting and the expanse of the land. I have read several of Ms. Clarke's novels, none dissapoint, this one especially.

Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2016

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More adventures from Lucinda Clarke as she carves a niche for herself and her media company documenting successes in the Durbin and the KwaZulu-Natal province in South Africa. With humor and insight, she writes about a world that few have ever experienced in media and geography. A very enlightening read.

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All Things D

From shrivelled monkey brains to Honey badgers and Nelson Mandela!

Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2015

Finding herself in the Monty Python parrot sketch in front of a Job Centre clerk in London Lucinda desperately misses South Africa and its sense of danger so we are transported back to this rich land of many mysteries.

This is an excellent memoir of Lucinda’s incredible career in filming documentaries and TV reporting in South Africa. She interviews some of the world’s top leaders as well as local officials.

Lucinda describes her Monday morning feeling ‘I jumped out of bed and said YES it’s Monday!’ But make no mistake; this is not a life of glamour! From filming rural schools with bullet holed doors to smelly abattoirs and urine diversion toilets to the recycling of graves in Durban to the horrors of AIDS and the lack of education - Lucinda covers it all. This is a great eye opener. If you never get the chance to visit South Africa at least read this memoir!

This really is a fascinating read and you will learn so much about South Africa from the wildlife (Honey Badgers and so on) to the African mind set on so many levels, democracy ‘African style,’ (the tremendous influence for example of the chief) to how the people live and how the economy of Durban operates. Through her work Lucinda tells us about traditional medicine.. from shriveled monkey brains to desiccated lion’s paw. She tries to convince communities to adopt cremation and we learn about the reycling of graves.

The greatest accolade of her career for me was meeting Nelson Mandela. ‘I felt afraid of him. He was one man I would not want to cross.’

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Lindylou

An Extraordinary Memoir.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 16, 2022

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This second memoir of Lucinda's time as a television producer is every bit as entertaining as her first. Having returned to London and out of work, she desperately misses South Africa with all its mysteries, this is where her heart is.

Returning to Durban with her youngest daughter she is soon back in the swing of things at Durban City Corporations but, before long she bites the bullet and establishes her own production company. With her 'Rainbow crew', they travel across Africa, horrendous door-less helicopter rides, from meeting Mandela and going into the bush to meet the bush-men. Their exploits are highly detailed and entertaining keeping the reader hooked.

Lucinda can tell a story effortlessly, she has the reader hooked with her written word, experiencing the unfolding dramas, tasting the dust and fears, smelling and experiencing Africa, through her writings she makes ordinary stories and people come to life. Thank you once again Lucinda for a truly wonderful journey.

I highly recommend this memoir.

Mr. F. Parker

Award Ceremonies and Other Shenanigans

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 15, 2016

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The second book in Lucinda E Clarke's memoir of her time as a television producer in South Africa is every bit as entertaining and illuminating as the first. At the start we find her in London, England and out of work. It does not take her long to decide to return to Durban where she takes up where she left off with the Durban City Corporation's communications unit. Before long she has established her own independent production company, able to bid for contracts making information videos for other provinces.
A considerable volume of her work is in connection with schemes that make awards to work teams who have performed well. Some of these teams are provincial government employees, some are private or voluntary sector teams funded with provincial government grants. She films the work of the various candidate teams, then edits the result to make it suitable for showing at the award ceremony.
She is candid about the 'lies and propaganda' elements of these films: how local politicians go out of their way to appear in the films and bask in the limelight, whilst doing little to help what the teams are doing, sometimes actually thwarting the objectives the teams are supposed to achieve.
Like the first book, this one is full of anecdotes illustrating the practical and social difficulties encountered by her and her multi-racial team, to whom she gives a good deal of the credit for the company's success over almost a decade beginning in the mid-1990s.
Ms Clarke has since written a series of fictional novels about a young woman's adventures in Africa. I am looking forward to reading these in 2017. I have no hesitation in recommending the work of this accomplished writer to anyone who enjoys a good read.

All Things D

Shrivelled monkey brains to Honey badgers and Mandela the feared man!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 16, 2015

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Finding herself in the Monty Python parrot sketch in front of a Job Centre clerk in London Lucinda desperately misses South Africa and its sense of danger so we are transported back to this rich land of many mysteries.

This is an excellent memoir of Lucinda’s incredible career in filming documentaries and TV reporting in South Africa. She interviews some of the world’s top leaders as well as local officials.

Lucinda describes her Monday morning feeling ‘I jumped out of bed and said YES it’s Monday!’ But make no mistake; this is not a life of glamour! From filming rural schools with bullet holed doors to smelly abattoirs and urine diversion toilets to the recycling of graves in Durban to the horrors of AIDS and the lack of education - Lucinda covers it all. This is a great eye opener. If you never get the chance to visit South Africa at least read this memoir!

This really is a fascinating read and you will learn so much about South Africa from the wildlife (Honey Badgers and so on) to the African mind set on so many levels, democracy ‘African style,’ (the tremendous influence for example of the chief) to how the people live and how the economy of Durban operates. Through her work Lucinda tells us about traditional medicine.. from shriveled monkey brains to desiccated lion’s paw. She tries to convince communities to adopt cremation and we learn about the reycling of graves.

The greatest accolade of her career for me was meeting Nelson Mandela. ‘I felt afraid of him. He was one man I would not want to cross.’

Ian Mathie

The truth behind the mask

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 27, 2015

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Once again Lucinda Clarke takes us behind the scenes in South Africa and shows how the propaganda machine works. At the same time she unerringly puts her finger on the corruption, and venality that hes crept in unseen by the rest of the world and ignored by the newly 'enfranchised' population as she recounts how publicity and public education programmes are made to demonstrate the success and effectiveness of the new order. Of course much of what she and her film crew had to produce was illusory and they seemed to spend as much time trying to hide the failures and corruption as in making honest films. But that is what they were paid to do and the venal politics of the business is no reflection on honest people trying to make a living in an already strained economy.
A superb memoir, beautifully written, easy to read and very revealing. Highly recommended for anyone who wants to know what goes on behind the scenes in almost every so called democracy.

Margaret

Refreshingly honest

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 25, 2016

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I read this book while recovering from major surgery. It is thus a testimony to the author’s engaging style that it held my attention from start to finish. I was in fact very sorry when I reached the end. Ms Clarke is entertaining, warm, refreshingly honest, and delightfully unconcerned about political correctness.

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