A Passage To Africa
$28.83
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
1 February 2008
Summary
George Alagiah’s personal testament about Africa, updated in a new Abacus edition
As a five-year-old, George Alagiah emigrated with his family to Ghana - the first African country to attain independence from the British Empire. A PASSAGE TO AFRICA is Alagiah’s shattering catalogue of atrocities crafted into a portrait of Africa that is infused with hope, insight and outrage. In vivid and evocative prose and with a fine eye for detail Alagiah’s viewpoint is spiked with the freshness of…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349120782 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349120781 |
| Author: | George Alagiah |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2008 |
| Weight: | 244g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 23mm |
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‘Without rhetoric or rancour, his eloquent book places these issues in their true context, and frames some of the major moral questions of our time– INDEPENDENT
The emphatic authority that George Alagiah has brought to his reports from Africa for BBC News is just as strong a component of his book - THE TIMES
‘Without rhetoric or rancour, his eloquent book places these issues in their true context, and frames some of the major moral questions of our time - INDEPENDENTAbout The Author
George Alagiah
Broadcaster and journalist George Alagiah was born in Ceylon in 1955 and emigrated with his family to Ghana in 1960. Alagiah came to the UK in the late 1960s and has worked for the BBC since 1989. He is currently presenter of the BBC’s Six O’Clock News and World News Today.
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