In Search of Africa

By Manthia Diawara

Book Overview

There I was, standing alone, unable to cry as I said goodbye to Sidime Laye, my best friend, and to the revolution that had opened the door of modernity for me. This text gives the story of a quest for a childhood friend, for the past and present, and for an Africa struggling to find its future.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674446119
• ISBN13: 9780674446113
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.5"

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