Scottish actress Louise Linton is taking a hilarious roasting on Twitter for her delusional ‘memoir’ about her gap year from hell in Zambia, writes Elizabeth Sleith We had a Scottish woman - describing herself as a "skinny white muzungu with long angel hair" - to thank for some good laughs of late, after she sparked a media storm over her "memoir" about living in Africa.In her book, titled In Congo's Shadow, Louise Linton describes a (delusional) gap year in Zambia in the 1990s, during which she supposedly had close encounters with lions, snakes and giant spiders, oh my … not to mention those gun-wielding rebels.She describes hiding in fear from "armed rebels" who descended on her village, having crossed the border from the DRC.story_article_left1Zambians and others have had a field day picking holes in her stories.Alyssa Klein from OkayAfrica.com called it "the dumbest, most egregious piece of writing on Africa of the 21st century". Zambia's High Commission in London this week accused Linton of "tarnishing the image of a very peaceful and friendly country" in her "falsified" memoir.But it was in the Twittersphere that the story took a humorous turn. Outrage over her claims sent #LintonLies trending, with several sharp responses.Zambian lawyer, DJ and presenter Chishala Chitoshi (@geshgroove) shared the picture above, taken on the drive from Livingstone to Lusaka, near the town of Monze. With it, he tweeted: "We are about to enter this town that has a population of 80 rebels, pray for us @LouiseLinton."Xhaka Zulu (@MaceWimbu) posted a pic of himself at the Lumangwe Falls on the Kalungwishi River in northern Zambia, writing “Rebels blew up the main water pipe to the village in Northern Zambia . Locals think it’s a waterfall #LintonLies.”Linton, who lives in LA, has since withdrawn the book from sale, shut down her Facebook and Twitter accounts and issued an apology."I now see how my characterisation of the country and its people have been interpreted as condescending and harmful," she wrote...