Two African Tales; The Leopard Hunt, and the Devil At Yolahun Bridge

Nicol, Abioseh; Bangurah, Hassan (Illustrator)

Edité par University Press, Cambridge, 1965

A propos de cet article

76 pages: foreword, illustrations; 21 cm. Foreword provides notes about modifications to story following independence of Sierra Leone from colonial occupation. Contents: The leopard hunt. The devil at Yolahun Bridge. Abioseh Nicol is the pen name of Davidson Nicol (1924-1994), a physician, diplomat and writer from Sierra Leone. He was the first black African elected as fellow of a college of Cambridge University, and served in the United Nations as permanent representative of Sierra Leone from 1968-1971, and then as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972-1982. He returned to academia in 1987, and was a visiting professor in International Studies at the University of California and University of South Carolina. His writing took the form of short stories, poetry, music, academic literature, and a biography of Africanus Horton, one of the founders of African Nationalism and an early Sierra Leonean author. Tight binding and clean pages; mild sunning on spine, turquoise, purple and midnight blue cover with small sticker residue on front, very minor chipping around edges, good(+) condition.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Two African Tales; The Leopard Hunt, and the Devil At Yolahun Bridge
• Éditeur: University Press, Cambridge
• Date de parution: 1965
• Reliure: Paperback
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Literature, Fiction, Drama & Poetry