A Passage to Africa

George Alagiah (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2001
Little, Brown & Company (Verlag)
978-0-316-85554-9 (ISBN)

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As a five-year-old, George Alagiah emigrated with his family to Ghana - the first African country to attain independence from the British Empire. This is Alagiah's shattering catalogue of atrocities crafted into a portrait of Africa that is infused with hope, insight and outrage. His viewpoint is spiked with the freshness of his younger self on his arrival in Ghana, the wonder inspired by his first impressions of Africa and the affection with which he still regards stories of his early family life. A sense of possibility lingers, even though the book is full of uncomfortable truths and the author tempers his personal insights with his integrity and sense of obligation in his role as a writer and reporter. He regards Africa not only as a group of nations or a vast continent, but as the site of an epic of individual pride and suffering.

News reporter George Alagiah was born in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1955 and his family emigrated to Ghana in 1960, thus beginning his lifelong relationship with the Dark Continent.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.9.2001
Zusatzinfo	Section: 16, b/w
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 234 mm
Gewicht	500 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Afrika
ISBN-10	0-316-85554-5 / 0316855545
ISBN-13	978-0-316-85554-9 / 9780316855549
Zustand	Neuware