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Chargement... Mandela, Mobutu, and Me: A Newswoman's African Journeypar Lynne Duke
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I felt the passion, sadness, and humanity that shines through Lynne Duke's journey through Africa. From dogging bullets in Mobutu's Congo to meeting Mandela in South Africa, we go through along with her on an unforgettable trip through Africa's misery and beauty. A must read for any budding journalist or wanting to learn more about Africa! ( ) For any readers who were disappointed by Duke's personal journey commentary, try reading A Continent for the Taking by Howard French. The two books have some overlap, but French, a writer for the New York Times, takes more of an analytical approach. His style is a bit more dense and less breezy than Duke's but engaging nonetheless. As for Duke's book, I, too, was initially put off by her personal commentary but as I moved through the entire book, I began to appreciate it as a memoir of her experience of a time in a radically different place than what most of her readers will probably ever experience for themselves. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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In this stunning memoir, veteran Washington Post correspondent Lynne Duke takes readers on a wrenching but riveting journey through Africa during the pivotal 1990s and brilliantly illuminates a continent where hope and humanity thrive amid unimaginable depredation and horrors. For four years as her newspaper's Johannesburg bureau chief, Lynne Duke cut a rare figure as a black American woman foreign correspondent as she raced from story to story in numerous countries of central and southern Africa. From the battle zones of Congo-Zaire to the quest for truth and reconciliation in South Africa; from the teeming displaced person’s camps of Angola and the killing field of the Rwanda genocide to the calming Indian Ocean shores of Mozambique. She interviewed heads of state, captains of industry, activists, tribal leaders, medicine men and women, mercenaries, rebels, refugees, and ordinary, hardworking people. And it is they, the ordinary people of Africa, who fueled the hope and affection that drove Duke’s reporting. The nobility of the ordinary African struggles, so often absent from accounts of the continent, is at the heart of Duke’s searing story. MANDELA, MOBUTU, AND ME is a richly detailed, clear-eyed account of the hard realities Duke discovered, including the devastation wrought by ruthless, rapacious dictators like Mobutu Sese Seko and his successor, Laurent Kabila, in the Congo, and appalling indifference of Europeans and Americans to the legacy of their own exploitation of the continent and its people. But Duke also records with admiration the visionary leadership and personal style of Nelson Mandela in south Africa as he led his country’s inspiring transition from apartheid in the twilight of his incredible life. Whether it was touring underground gold and copper mines, learning to carry water on her head, filing stories by flashlight or dodging gunmen, Duke’s tour of Africa reveals not only the spirit and travails of an amazing but troubled continent -- it also explores the heart and fearlessness of a dedicated journalist. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)968.065History and Geography Africa South Africa and southern Africa 1961-Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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