Dark Child
Subtitle: The Autobiography of an African Boy
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Published: 1954
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780374507688
Subjects: Guinea, social life and customs
Description: [This book] is a ... memoir of [the author's] youth in the village of Koroussa, French Guinea, a place steeped in mystery. [He] marvels over his mother's supernatural powers, his father's distinction as the village goldsmith, and his own passage into manhood, which is marked by animistic beliefs and bloody rituals of primeval origin. Eventually, he must choose between this unique place and the academic success that lures him to distant cities. More than the autobiography of one boy, this is the universal story of sacred traditions struggling against the encroachment of a modern world.-Back cover.