The Python Trail: An Immigrant`s Path from Cameroon to America 9781608934058

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Автор: Afuma Richard
Название: The Python Trail: An Immigrant`s Path from Cameroon to America
ISBN: 9781608934058
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Автобиографии исторических, политических и военных деятелей

Миграция, иммиграция и эмиграция

ISBN-10: 1608934055
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 256
Вес: 0.29 кг.
Дата издания: 01.05.2015
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 12 black & white halftones
Размер: 214 x 140 x 15
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: An immigrant`s path from cameroon to america
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Growing up in remote Cameroon, Richard Afuma could not expect to live much past the age of 40, and his chances of any sort of education were slim. But at the age of eight, Afuma found his way to a school run by Baptist missionaries, where he learned to write on banana leaves. When he was ten, he saw his first white person who, from the evidence of a flip chart at school, he took to be Jesus Christ. He was told that the Land Rovers and Land Cruisers he saw driving down the rutted roads of Kom were made by these same people--Jesuses with supernatural powers--who were uniformly called Americans. In The Python Trail, Afuma portrays the kind of journey that many immigrants have made, but few have described. When he arrived in Maine as a college freshman, hed never heard of a washing machine, a microwave oven, or a coffee maker; the bed sheets were so clean and white, he was afraid hed dirty them; and he believed computer printers were run by ghosts. As much as anything, Afuma was shocked to learn that poverty and homelessness existed in a place whose streets hed thought were paved with gold. It had never occurred to him that he himself might face hardships here, so that, despite having earned a masters degree in public administration, he would fail time and time again to find meaningful employment. Scam artists preyed on him. Racism, though subtle, followed him wherever he went.

The Python Trail: An Immigrant`s Path from Cameroon to America, Afuma Richard