Bibliograph

Visiting Africa, a memoir

Type

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Visiting Africa, a memoir

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Visiting Africa

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Sub title

a memoir

Summary

Visiting Africa: A Memoir is a personal journey as well as a physical one: it is about my ongoing and evolving attempt to approach Africa and its cultures with humility and modesty and about my struggles as a privileged white man to ethically encounter and live in a world marked by injustice and racialized inequality. It takes up the present challenge of resurrecting stories that challenge dominant narratives. It is an investigation of privilege and how the privileged must overcome their own defensiveness and feelings of guilt if they are to stand in solidarity with those people they meet and write about. Finally, this book is an investigation into the possibilities of empathy

Target audience

adult

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