Goodbye, Dr Banda: Lessons for the West From a Small African Country - Couverture souple

Chula, Alexander

 
9781846977305: Goodbye, Dr Banda: Lessons for the West From a Small African Country
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ISBN 10 : 1846977304 ISBN 13 : 9781846977305
Editeur : Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited, 2025

Synopsis

‘You may never have been, may never go, may never even have heard of the place – but Malawi will repay your attention. It is one of the smallest, poorest countries in Africa, often overlooked; but its relationship with us in the West has been extraordinary.’

How to engage with cultures profoundly unlike our own? We travel the world compulsively, wanting to reach out, but seldom feeling sure of how to do so.

A small African country presents us with a near perfect case study. From David Livingstone and the early missionaries, through British colonialists, to today's tourists, aid workers, and even Madonna, Malawi has experienced the whole gamut of Westerners, all trying to connect.

This has made for an extraordinary meeting of worlds, between one of the continent's most fascinating indigenous cultures, and the best and worst of our own. Unexpected and exhilarating, by turns edifying and uncomfortable, it is a story with urgent lessons for our vexed age of identity crisis and multi-cultural faltering.

Here tribal ritual collides with Ancient Greek theatre; roving classicists with ancestral spirits; poets and pop stars with missionary-explorers; hippies and kleptocrats with long-suffering peasants – a tumultuous masquerade around the enigmatic Dr Banda.

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À propos de l?auteur

Alexander Chula is a writer and NHS junior doctor. He was born and raised in London, and is of mixed Thai and British ancestry. He read Classics at Worcester College, Oxford, then medicine at the University of London. He has worked in Malaŵi both as a teacher of Latin and Greek and as a doctor.

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Éditeur
Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1846977304
ISBN 13 
9781846977305
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
320
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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