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The Disillusioned African

Paperback • 2007 • Norwegian Bokmål

The Disillusioned African

By Francis B. Nyamnjoh

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About the book

This humorous tale of the na?ve and curious African student-cum-philosopher wandering between North and South, the rural and the urban, has been in gestation for a period of nearly two decades. With allusion to traditions of the philosophical novel and the picaresque, Nyamnjoh's protagonist travels from his African village to the sharply divided and socially cruel world of 1980s Britain. By casting aside his disillusion and the traps of servitude and victimhood, The Disillusioned African reveals...Show more

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ISBN

9789956558025

Publisher

Oxford : Langaa RPCIG

Published year

2007

Language

Norwegian Bokmål

Original title

The Disillusioned African

Format

Paperback

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