"Based on real historical events, 'Yoráub/74/a Boy Running' charts Samuel Ajayi Crowther's miraculous journey from slave to liberator, boy to man, running to resisting 'Run, áAjáayâi, run!' The day the Malian slave traders invaded the Nigerian town of âOsogâun, thirteen-year-old áAjáayâi's life was split in two. Before, there was his childhood, surrounded by friends and family, watched over by the ancient Yoráubâa gods of forest and water, earth and sky. After: capture, slavery - and release, into the service of a new god, his own culture left far behind. So áAjáayâi becomes Samuel Crowther - missionary, linguist, minister - and abolitionist: driven to negotiate against his own people to end the miserable trade in human beings which destroyed his family. Drawing on the prolific writings of Samuel Ajayi Crowther, Biyi B/74/and/74/el/74/e has created a many-voiced, kaleidoscopic portrait of an extraordinary man"--
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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Fadenheftung
Gewebe-Einband
Maße
Höhe: 213 mm
Breite: 140 mm
Dicke: 25 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-06-341708-3 (9780063417083)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Biyi Bandele (1967–2022) was a pioneering novelist, playwright and film-maker. Born in Northern Nigeria to a veteran of the Burma campaign, winning a British theatre award brought him to London at age 22, where he published his first two novels and went onto write and direct many acclaimed plays, novels and feature films in the UK and Nigeria. The Independent named him one of Africa’s Fifty Greatest Artists.
