Research Catalog

Title

Africa : land of my fathers / Era Bell Thompson.

Author

Thompson, Era Bell.

Publication

Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1954.

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Details

Description

281 pages; 22 cm

Summary

In 1953, Ebony magazine editor Era Bell Thompson visited 18 African countries, only one of which was an independent nation: "My African safari was prompted by the same desire that prompts other Americans to return to Europe and Asia to visit their 'Old Country,' or that of their parents or grandparents. I, too, wanted to return to the land of my forefathers, to see if it is as dark and hopeless as it has been painted and to find out how it would receive a prodigal daughter who had not been home for three hundred years. And I wanted to know what my own reactions would be to my African ancestors." The countries as then known, from her Introduction: Gold Coast, Nigeria, Belgian Congo, Ruanda-Urundi, the British Rhodesias, Union of South Africa, Mozambique, Tanganyika, Kenya Colony, Uganda, Ethiopia (independent), Eritrea, Egypt.

Subject

• Thompson, Era Bell > Travel > Africa
• Thompson, Era Bell
• 1945-1960
• African Americans > Africa
• Indigenous peoples > Africa
• African American women journalists > Biography
• African American women journalists
• African Americans
• Indigenous peoples
• Social conditions
• Travel
• Africa > Social conditions > 1945-1960
• Africa > Description and travel
• Africa

Genre/Form

• Biographies.
• Travel writing.
• Récits de voyages.

Contents

Little U.S.A. -- The Garden of Eden -- Gold Coast glamour boy -- Modern King Midas -- End of a dynasty -- Ten Congo clerks -- The tall Watusi -- Railroaded -- According to race -- Promised land -- Prohibited immigrant -- Mau Mau country -- Shadow of the law -- Return to Nairobi -- Stone cold dead -- Down in Egypt land.

LCCN

54010091

OCLC

• ocm00526168
• 526168
• SCSB-873074

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library