Gogo Mama

Gogo Mama
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Publisher : Macmillan Publishers Aus.
Total Pages : 361
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ISBN-10 : 9781741978438
ISBN-13 : 1741978432
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Book Synopsis Gogo Mama by : Sally Sara

Download or read book Gogo Mama written by Sally Sara and published by Macmillan Publishers Aus.. This book was released on 2007-11-10 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gogo Mama intimately profiles the lives of twelve very different African women. They include a genocide survivor from Rwanda; a pygmy who lives in a grass hut at the base of a volcano in the Congo; Zanzibar's most famous living diva; a former child soldier from Liberia; a grandmother fighting AIDS in South Africa; a freed slave from Ghana, who as a child was given to a priest as a sacrifice for crimes committed by an ancestor; a famous Egyptian belly dancer turned movie star; and a pioneering midwife from Timbuktu. The women speak frankly about their astonishing lives, past and present, in some of the most hostile and exotic parts of the continent. This book is a journey across Africa, in all its complexity – from the townships of Johannesburg, to the back alleys of Zanzibar; from the frontline of the war in the Sudan, to the nightclubs of Cairo. It is a vivid, illuminating and often haunting composite picture of an extraordinary continent, in the words of the people who know it best.


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