African lives : an anthology of memoirs and autobiographies / edited by Geoff Wisner.

• Editor's Introduction. North Africa: Algeria; "Encounters" / Mohammed Dib --?The Writer (excerpt) / Yasmina Khadra --?Egypt; A Border Passage (excerpt) / Leila Ahmed --?A Daughter of Isis (excerpt) / Nawal El Saadawi --?Libya; "The Rabbit Club" / Hisham Matar --?Morocco; The Travels of Ibn Battuta (excerpt) / Ibn Battuta --?Look & Move On (excerpt) / Mohammed Mrabet --?The Fraternal Bond (excerpt) / Tahar Ben Jelloun --?Return to Childhood (excerpt) / Leila Abouzeid --?"So to Speak" / Laila Lalami --?Sudan; "Salamanca" / Jamal Mahjoub --?"A Cold But Fertile Ground" / Leila Aboulela --?West Africa: Burkina Faso; Thomas Sankara Speaks (excerpt) / Thomas Sankara --?Cameroon; Three Kilos of Coffee (excerpt) / Manu Dibango --?Ghana; Ghana: The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah (excerpt) / Kwame Nkrumah --?A Far Cry from Plymouth Rock (excerpt) / Kwame Dawes --?Nigeria; "My Father's English Friend" (excerpt) / Okey Ndibe --?"Ethics and Narrative: The Human and Other" / Chris Abani --?"African 'Authenticity' and the Biafran Experience" / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie --?"Reform, in the Name of the Father" / Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani --?Senegal; Ousmane Sembène: Interviews (excerpt) / ed by Annett Busch and Max Annas --?Sierra Leone; The Devil That Danced on the Water (excerpt) / Aminatta Forna --?Central Africa: Democratic Republic of Congo; Lumumba Speaks (excerpt) / Patrice Lumumba --?Republic of Congo; My Country, Africa (excerpt) / Andrée Blouin --?"Hollywood, Pirated Videos, and Child Soldiers" / Emmanuel Dongala --?Rwanda; Machete Season (excerpt) / Jean-Baptiste Murangira, as told to Jean Hatzfeld --?East Africa: Ethiopia; "New World Alphabet" / Dagmawi Woubshet --?Kenya; Detained: A Writer's Diary (excerpt) / Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o --?One Day I Will Write About This Place (excerpt) / Binyavanga Wainaina --?Madagascar; Childhood in Madagascar (excerpt) / Christian Dumoux --?Seychelles; Paradise Raped (excerpt) / James R. Mancham --?Somalia; "The Family House" / Nuruddin Farah --?Tanzania; Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar (excerpt) / Emily Ruete --?The Worlds of a Maasai Warrior (excerpt) / Tepilit Ole Saitoti --?Uganda; Elizabeth of Toro (excerpt) / Elizabeth Nyabongo --?Southern Africa: Botswana; Nisa: The Life and Words of a!Kung Woman (excerpt) / Nisa, as told to Marjorie Shostak --?A Woman Alone (excerpt) / Bessie Head --?Lesotho; Singing Away the Hunger (excerpt) / Mpho 'M'atsepo Nthunya --?Namibia; Never Follow the Wolf (excerpt) / Helao Shityuwete --?South Africa; Mafeking Diary (excerpt) / Sol T Plaatje --?Let My People Go (excerpt) / Albert Luthuli --?117 Days (excerpt) / Ruth First --?And Night Fell (excerpt) / Molefe Pheto --?I Write What I Like (excerpt) / Steve Biko --?Zambia; Zambia Shall Be Free (excerpt) / Kenneth Kaunda --?Zimbabwe; With the People (excerpt) / Maurice Nyagumbo --?Nkomo (excerpt) / Joshua Nkomo --?"A Letter to My Mother" / Chenjerai Hove.

Ämnesord

Autobiography  -- Africa. (LCSH)

Africans  -- Biography. (LCSH)

Africa  -- Biography. (LCSH)

Klassifikation

920.06 (DDC)

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