English language excerpt from novel
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Young Adult (18-35)Accents
British (Received Pronunciation - RP, BBC)Transcript
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On that balmy night. In 1963 Babu's grandson Rajan was at the Jacaranda Hotel where he often could be found waiting to take the stage with his band while he was making his way towards the bathroom. The lights went out. The outrage elicited a mixture of exaggerated shouts, yells and groans from bar patrons who instantly recognized the range of possibilities that the cover of darkness provided scoundrels would flee without settling their bills. Lovers would snuggle closer and villagers would get a chance to hurl rotten eggs at the Zun. The latter arsenal wasn't as crude as it sounds. It was actually a downgrade from the stones that the revelers initially took to the establishment because for decades, racial segregation had been enforced at the Jacaranda Hotel with a notice at its entrance proclaiming Africans and dogs are not allowed. Actually, some Africans were allowed the cleaners and gardeners and cooks and guards and those who ensured the Wazu patrons were comfortable, but dogs were strictly prohibited for reasons. Few could remember and which many found confounding. Given the centrality of dogs in Zungu lives, they were always talking or cuddling or walking with one in another part of the colony, one Zungu had gunned down an African for stoning his dog when it attacked him. So in June of that year, 1963 with the onset of independence, when word went around that, all races were welcome in the previously whites only Jacaranda Hotel. Most Africans suspected dogs would be allowed in as well. And so carried stones as a precautionary measure. When they did not find any dogs at the hotel, the revelers exchanged stones for eggs because.