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The Coyaba Chronicles - Reflections on the Black Experience in the 20th Century (Paperback)
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The Coyaba Chronicles - Reflections on the Black Experience in the 20th Century (Paperback)
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"The Coyaba Chronicles: Reflections on the Black Experience in the
Twentieth Century" is both personal memoir and a powerful
meditation on what W.E.B. Dubois defined at the beginning of the
century as "the problem of the colour line; of the relations
between the lighter and darker races of man". Using Dubois as a
point of departure, Abrahams writes passionately, about the
inherent "wrongness" of racial hatred and contemplates such
timeless questions as: "Why was colour the most crucial issue of
our century?" and "When will we get over the deep psychic and
emotional damage done by the racial experience?" This is one of the
major themes of the memoir - the quest for an intellectual identity
- a challenge that faces people of colour in first and third-world
countries.;"The Coyaba Chronicles" is also the personal journey of
Peter Abrahams. It is the odyssey of a young South African who
works for a time as a seaman, leaving his homeland for wartime
Britain and post-war France to become a writer; it is the story of
his personal relationships with the Black literati of the day and
his involvement in the pan-Africanist movement of the 1950's -
allowing for his fascinating personal pen-portraits of George
Padmore, W.E.B. Dubois, Julius Nyerere, Kwame Nkrumah, Richard
Wright and Langston Hughes. It is how the journey takes him to the
Caribbean island of Jamaica, where he and his wife Daphne and their
three children find sanctuary from racial divisiveness at "Coyaba"
in the hills of St Andrew.
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