Gogo Mama: A Journey into the Lives of 12 African Women
Author(s): Sally Sara
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.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Pan Macmillan Australia Pty, Limited
- : Macmillan Australia
- : 0.55
- : 01 May 2007
- : books
Special Fields
- : illustrations
- : 345
- : 305
- : English
- : illustrated edition
- : Paperback
- : Sally Sara