The confederation plan was also highly unpopular among ordinary southern Africans.

Did ordinary Africans have no role to play in these events?

He decided to go in search of the art that doesn't get into galleries, but has real function in the lives of ordinary Africans.

There is also evidence that ordinary Africans are increasingly willing to hold their leaders' feet to the fire.

It was ordinary Africans who helped me to survive.

Images of ordinary modern urban Africans don't fit into either of these formulations.

For many ordinary Africans, the tangible benefits of the political change remain elusive.

By the later 1930s government began to intrude on ordinary Africans through marketing controls, stricter educational supervision, and land changes.

But most ordinary Africans do not seem to have a clue who he is, even when he sings for the crowds that the duo encounters.

There is little sense here - even less than elsewhere in Africa - that politicians can improve the lives of ordinary Africans.