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Title:

The passport that does not pass ports : African literature of travel in the twenty-first century / edited by Isabel Balseiro and Zachariah Rapola.

Publisher:

Michigan State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xx, 196 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Travelers' writings.
Travel.
Travelers' writings.
Africa--Description and travel.
Africa--Literary collections.
Africa.
Literary collections.

Other Authors:

Balseiro, Isabel, editor.
Rapola, Zachariah, editor.
Rapola, Zachariah, author.
Owuor, Yvonne Adhiambo, author.
Tadjo, Véronique, 1955- author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

I. Theories of Travel. Bye-Bye Babar / Taiye Selasi (Ghana/Nigeria) -- Afropolitanism / Achille Mbembe (Cameroon) -- II. Traveling Fictions. The Wanderer / Hassouna Mosbahi (Tunisia) -- The Start of the Affair / Nuruddin Farah (Somalia) -- Presidential Portraits / Zachariah Rapola (South Africa) -- A Private Experience / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria) -- Weight of Whispers / Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (Kenya) -- Murambi: Excerpt from Murambi, The Book of Bones / Boris Boubacar Diop (Senegal) -- Homeland: Excerpt from Far From My Father / Véronique Tadjo (Côte d'Ivoire) -- Abdar and Terhas: Excerpt from African Titanics / Abu Bakr Hamid Khaal (Eritrea) -- III. Memoir. Photography: Excerpt from A Stranger's Pose / Emmanuel Iduma (Nigeria) -- Hargeisa Snapshots / Doreen Baingana (Uganda) -- Zanzibar, circa 1996 / Heidi Grunebaum (South Africa) -- Fugee / Hawa Jande Golakai (Liberia) -- 2010 World Cup: Excerpt from One Day I Will Write About This Place / Binyavanga Wainaina (Kenya) -- Port Harcourt: Tending the Backyard : Excerpt from Looking for Transwonderland / Noo Saro-Wiwa (Nigeria) -- Trapdoor: Excerpt from The Return : Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between / Hisham Matar (Libya).

Summary:

"This collection gathers seventeen essays on travel in Africa by twenty-first-century African authors"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

African humanities and the arts

ISBN:

1611863732
9781611863734

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1140358917

LCCN:

2019049197

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)