Mister Johnson

Mr. Johnson, a young Nigerian clerk in the British colonial civil service, finds himself entrenched in debts after six months in Fada, Nigeria. His life is a mix of adventures and mishaps as he navigates work on probation while living lavishly with drums and smuggled gin. Despite financial woes, he ambitiously plans to spend a fortune on his wife.

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The adventures and misadventures of a young Nigerian negro in the British colonial civil service.

A temporary clerk, still on probation, Mr Johnson has been in Fada, Nigeria, for six months and is already much in debt. Undaunted, he entertains on the grandest scale, with drums and smuggled gin. Not only that, he intends to pay a small fortune for his wife...