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Out of Africa Narrator:

Who is the narrator, can she or he read minds, and, more importantly, can we trust her or him?

First Person (Central Narrator)

The Baroness Blixen has taken over open-mic night and no one else is getting a turn. Check out the I's and my's in this quote, which is fairly representative:

"If I had had the capital, I thought, I would have given up coffee, have cut down the coffee-trees, and have planted forest-trees on my land." (5.1.7)

We're dealing with a memoir, so it makes sense that it's her story, about her, by her. It is also heavily skewed to her perspective. There are moments where she'll do some geography-textbook-style descriptions, but you still know it's her that's doing the talking.