A Passage to Africa

by George Alagiah and george-alagiah

Book Overview

As a five-year-old, George Alagiah emigrated with his family to Ghana - the first African country to attain independence from the British Empire. A Passage to Africa is Alagiah's shattering catalogue... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0751532142
• ISBN13: 9780751532142
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Not so much a biography, more a history of political struggle in Africa

Now, I had my reservations when my mother bought me this book, I don't tend to read biographies, least of all of C list celebrities. However I was surprised by this book - it is excellent. George Alagiah has an engaging writing style full of wit with a deeply humanistic sentiment, his experiences in Africa from the time he emigrated from Sri Lanka (as a Tamil) to Ghana up until his time as a BBC reporter are used as background to the history of a number of countries and their adjustment to a post-colonial world. He offers explanations of their frequent failures, examples of their successes and his optimistic hopes for the future.