A woman of Africa: if you run from both the sun and the moon you must one day confront your shadow
✍ Scribed by Nick Roddy
- Publisher
- Troubador Publishing Ltd;Matador
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 140 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1848769512
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
'I am an African woman. That's not a political statement. I am not a Whoopee Goldberg or an Oprah Winfrey, a middle-class American in search of an identity or asserting a political right. I am a woman and I am African. That is all there is to it, and that is my tragedy.' In Douala, Cameroon, an African woman relates her life as a woman of Africa to a white oil company worker. Her story can be seen as an experience which encompasses a range of issues that affect women in Africa today, it touches upon Aids tribal prejudice, prostitution, poverty and ignorance. Viewing her life through the conflicting filters of religion and cynicism, her narrative is entertaining and moving. She relates, with no trace of self-pity, her life as a Biafran refugee, as a women in modern Cameroon and as an uneducated Anglophone in today's Douala. The story she tells starts from her birth during the refugee crisis of Biafra. She grows to be a willful child who realises there is life outside the ghetto....