Out of America

A Black Man Confronts Africa

Author: Keith B. Richburg
ISBN: 9780156005838

Nothing in Keith Richburg's long and respected journalistic career at the "Washington Post" prepared him for what he would encounter as the paper's correspondent in Africa. At first all he could focus on was an Africa he tried his best to explain, a continent where brutal murder had become routine, where dictators and warlords silenced dissent with machine guns and machetes, where local officials sought payoffs for the most routine tasks, and where starvation had become depressingly common. But slowly, and with a great deal of personal anguish, this reporter asked a much more difficult question: If this is Africa, what does it mean for me to be an African-American? In this provocative and unvarnished account of his three years on the continent of his ancestors, Richburg takes us on an extraordinary journey that sweeps from Somalia to Rwanda to Zaire and finally to South Africa, and shows how he was forced to confront the divide within himself between his African racial heritage and his

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publish Date: 1998

Subjects: Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies

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