And home was Kariakoo : a memoir /
From M.G. Vassanji, two-time Giller Prize winner and a GG winner for nonfiction, comes a poignant love letter to his birthplace and homeland, East Africa--a powerful and surprising portrait that only an insider could write. Part travelogue, part memoir, and part history-rarely-told, here is a powerf...
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| 505 | 0 | |a Going home -- Gaam, Dar es Salaam: The India Town -- Gaam strikes back: The larning tower and other recent developments -- The road to Tanga -- Tanga, decline in the sun -- India and Africa: Of entrepreneurs old and new -- Kilwa, the Old City -- Quiloa, the Island -- The msytics down the road: Discovering the Sufis -- Burton and Speke, and the East African expedition of 1857 -- The old westbound caravan route -- Bongoland: Something is happening -- Kigoma and Ujiji: the long road -- The South Coast: A Journey Shortened -- The Sourthern Highlands: Tukuyu - Neue Langenberg -- The Southern Highlands: Mbeya -- Book, medicine, and spirit -- Zanzibar: Island in the Sun -- Zanzibar: The Revolution -- Zanzibar: The sweet and the smelly -- The Old Warriors: Dar es Salaam again -- Omba-omba: The culture of begging -- The New (Asian) African: Politics and creativity -- Nairobi, lost and regained? -- Closing the circle | |
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