In Search of Africa

by Manthia Diawara

Book Overview

"There I was, standing alone, unable to cry as I said goodbye to Sidim Laye, my best friend, and to the revolution that had opened the door of modernity for me--the revolution that had invented me." This book gives us the story of a quest for a childhood friend, for the past and present, and above all for an Africa that is struggling to find its future.

In 1996 Manthia Diawara, a distinguished professor of film and literature in New York...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674004086
• ISBN13: 9780674004085
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Diawara and Richard Wright

Diawara's book is provocative and important for understanding African critical thinking in the twentieth century. The book is especially important for the "third perspective" it enables us to gain for a rereading of Richard Wright's >. I strongly recommend this book to Wright scholars and African Americanists in general.<p>Jerry W. Ward, Jr., Lawrence Durgin Profesor of Literature, Tougaloo College