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And Other True Stories from the Lost Decades of Africa
Bloomsbury USA
July 2012
On Sale: July 3, 2012
336 pages
ISBN: 1608198596
EAN: 9781608198597
Kindle: B007N6JD7A
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Non-Fiction Biography
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 imprisoned for more than a year.My
First Coup D'Etat offers an intimate 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 history, as cultural and political analysis,
as fables, 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 into a world all their own, one which
evokes a time lost and explores the universal human emotions
of love, fear, faith, despair, loss, longing, and hope
despite all else.
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