A Passage to Africa - Softcover

Alagiah, George

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ISBN 10: 0751532142 ISBN 13: 9780751532142

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group, 2002

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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. A Passage to Africa is Alagiah's shattering catalogue of atrocities crafted into a portrait of Africa that is infused with hope, insight, and outrage. In vivid and evocative prose and with a fine eye for detail, Alagiah's viewpoint is spiked with the freshness of the young George on his arrival in Ghana, the wonder with which he recounts his first impressions of Africa, and the affection with which he dresses his stories of his early family life. A sense of possibility lingers, even though the book is full of uncomfortable truths. It is a book neatly balanced on his integrity and sense of obligation in his role as a writer and reporter.

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About the Author:

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.

Review:

* 'The emphatic authority that George Alagiah has brought to his reports from Africa for BBC News is just as strong a component of his book' - THE TIMES * 'Without rhetoric or rancour, his eloquent book places these issues in their true context, and frames some of the major moral questions of our time' - INDEPENDENT

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