Withering look at a fictional colonial Zanzibar with the schemings of the brits and french, the incongruous diplomats, the lugubrious “natives”, the oxford-educated Emperor with visions of grandeur, the stereotypical notion of how civil wars proceed, arab tradesmen, the “blacks”... lots of fun, skewers the attitudes of both the vaguely ‘racist’ colonizer and colonized… vicious fun