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

Contributor Wisner, Geoff, editor.

ImprintBoulder, Colorado : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2013.

Descriptionxii, 401 p. ; 24 cm

Note:Includes index.

Note: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 Sembene: 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) / Andree 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) / Ngugi 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.

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