Ousman Umar
Auteur de North to Paradise: A Memoir
Œuvres de Ousman Umar
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1988
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Ghana
- Lieu de naissance
- Fiaso, Ghana
- Lieux de résidence
- Barcelona, Spain
- Études
- University of Barcelona (Chemistry)
Esade (MA|NGO Management and Administration) - Professions
- mechanic
founder of NGO - Organisations
- NASCO Feeding Minds
- Courte biographie
- At the age of 12, he left Ghana on his own and walked to Libya, across the Sahara. He was eventually was given refuge in Spain, where he went to college and started an NGO to help Ghanaian youth.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 3
- Membres
- 214
- Popularité
- #104,033
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 6
- ISBN
- 9
- Langues
- 2
My professor promptly pointed out that my story didn’t make sense nor did it seem believable. Which way was I rolling again? How does that work with falling forward into the anthill? Oh wait, you were rolling down hill? He argued either I was embellishing or I didn’t really remember this moment all that well. The truth is he was right about both. I embellished (badly) a story that was lame to make it more interesting and I honestly didn’t remember it that well either. I think I was rolling backward at one point, there definitely was an anthill. But even if it was all true, not feeling believable to your audience is still a big deal.
And that’s North to Paradise. A badly told, poorly remembered memoir (ehh) with a lot of holes, completely impossible moments, and strings of events. There is no scene building or character study. The most egregious for me was when Ousman was shopping for a migrant guide, chose one, and then all the sudden he was being tortured by the guy he just hired? Little things bothered me too - like how he finnalllly got into a routine just to be uprooted…and a sentence later we find out he only stayed in that place for one day.
All this to say, I get it. I’m a bad writer too. Face palm. Skip this one unless cringe is your thing.… (plus d'informations)