The overall view the author outlines of late '70s Sou...

unduly optimistic, coloured by the typically unattainable idealism of young people.

predictably hopelessly distorted by the author's white middle-class background and petit bourgeois values.

inherently flawed and, therefore, pointless for it fails to place the country in a broader regional, African, or world context.

basically descriptive and provides information about a politically, socially, and racially unequal and unfair society poised on the verge of momentous changes.

oddly detached and unemotional due, perhaps, to the fact that she can only sympathize with the oppressed black population's plight up to a point.