My First Coup D'Etat: Memories from the Lost Decades of Africa (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for My First Coup D'Etat An important literary debut from the Vice President of Ghana, a fable-like memoir that offers a shimmering microcosm of post-colonial Africa. 'A much welcome work of immense relevance' Chinua Achebe
Full description- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Published: 19 July 2012
- Format: Paperback 336 pages
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- Categories: Biography: Historical, Political & Military | Memoirs | African History | Postwar 20th Century History, From C 1945 To C 2000
- ISBN 13: 9781408832684 ISBN 10: 1408832682
- Sales rank: 424,012
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Full description for My First Coup D'Etat
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 rumours 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 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 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.
