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In Search of Africa (Paperback, Revised)
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In Search of Africa (Paperback, Revised)
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"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--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 City,
returns to Guinea, thirty-two years after he and his family were
expelled from the newly liberated country. He is beginning work on
a documentary about Sekou Toure, the dictator who was Guinea's
first post-independence leader. Despite the years that have gone
by, Diawara expects to be welcomed as an insider, and is shocked to
discover that he is not. The Africa that Diawara finds is not the
one on the verge of barbarism, as described in the Western press.
Yet neither is it the Africa of his childhood, when the excitement
of independence made everything seem possible for young Africans.
His search for Sidime Laye leads Diawara to profound meditations on
Africa's culture. He suggests solutions that might overcome the
stultifying legacy of colonialism and age-old social practices, yet
that will mobilize indigenous strengths and energies. In the face
of Africa's dilemmas, Diawara accords an important role to the
culture of the diaspora as well as to traditional music and
literature--to James Brown, Miles Davis, and Salif Keita, to
Richard Wright, Spike Lee, and the ancient epics of the griots. And
Diawara's journey enlightens us in the most disarming way with
humor, conversations, and well-told tales.
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