A Good Man in Africa (novel)
First edition  | |
| Author | William Boyd | 
|---|---|
| Publisher | Hamish Hamilton | 
Publication date  | 1981 | 
| Pages | 256 | 
| Awards | Whitbread First Novel Award Somerset Maugham Award  | 
| ISBN | 1-4000-3002-1 | 
| OCLC | 53163201 | 
| 823/.914 22 | |
| LC Class | PR6052.O9192 G6 2003 | 
| Followed by | An Ice Cream War (1982) | 
A Good Man in Africa is William Boyd's first novel, published in 1981. It won both the Whitbread Book Award for a first novel and the Somerset Maugham Award that year.