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Author:

Essa, Ebrahim, author.

Title:

Eb Koybie : a memoir of shenanigans between Durban & Bombay / Ebrahim Essa.

Publisher:

Social Bandit Media,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xvii, 200 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm

Subject:

Essa, Ebrahim.
1900-1999
Muslims--Durban.--Durban.
Muslims--Mumbai.--Mumbai.
Ethnicity.
Manners and customs.
Muslims.
Social conditions.
Durban (South Africa)--Social life and customs--20th century.
Durban (South Africa)--Social conditions--20th century.
Durban (South Africa)--Ethnic identity--20th century.
Mumbai (India)--Social life and customs--20th century.
Mumbai (India)--Social conditions--20th century.
Mumbai (India)--Ethnic identity--20th century.
India--Mumbai.
South Africa--Durban.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.

Summary:

"In this part memoir and part satire, Ebrahim Essa chronicles a quirky childhood growing up in the 1950s in an Indian township on the outskirts of the South African port city of Durban. Here, he bunks school to watch Hindi films, irons his brothers clothes to access banned imported comic books and tries to outrun gangsters in the Grey Street Casbah. Just as he begins to win at life, apartheid education prompts his father to send him to India to study, He spends 21 days on board the SS Karanja nervously snacking on Lemon Creams

ISBN:

0620859210
9780620859219

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1135894172

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)