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My First Coup d'Etat: And Other True Stories from the Lost Decades of Africa
My First Coup d'Etat And Other True Stories from the Lost Decades of Africa Author:John Dramani Mahama My First Coup D?Etat chronicles the coming-of-age of John Dramani Mahama in Ghana during the dismal post-independence "lost decades" of Africa. He was seven years old when rumors of a coup reached his boarding school in Accra. His father, a minister of state, was suddenly missing, then imprisoned for more than a year.My First Coup D?Etat offers ... more »a look at the country that has long been considered Africa?s success story. This is a one-of-a-kind book: Mahama?s is a rare literary voice from a political leader, and his personal stories work on many levels?as fables, as history, as cultural and political analysis, and, of course, as the memoir of a young man who, unbeknownst to him or anyone else, would grow up to be vice president of his nation.Though non-fiction, these are stories that rise above their specific settings and transport the reader?much like the fiction of Isaac Bashevis Singer and Nadine Gordimer?into a world all their own, one which straddles a time lost and explores the universal human emotions of love, fear, faith, despair, loss, longing, and hope despite all else.« less
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