Mister Johnson is often read in schools and has had a wide audience.

Mister Johnson is a native aide to the British administrators in Nigeria.

"We have no money for rent or food, Mister Johnson."

Mister Johnson, I don't want to go talk to another lawyer.

You can give it to me, but I will not call him, Mister Johnson.

The sad truth, of course, is that Mister Johnson ultimately belongs to neither culture.

In 1989, his last year there, he saw an advertisement seeking Nigerian-accented men for "Mister Johnson."

"You sure are drunk, Mister Johnson," she said.

"You seem to be feeling poorly, Mister Johnson," she said.

Harney's Mister Johnson turn me loose - notated music.