And home was Kariakoo
Subtitle: a memoir of East Africa
By: M.G. Vassanji
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Toronto]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780385671439
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Travel; Childhood and youth; Authors, Canadian (English); Biography; Description and travel; Voyages; Enfance et jeunesse; Écrivains canadiens-anglais; Biographies; Descriptions et voyages
Description: From M.G. Vassanji, two-time Giller Prize winner and a GG winner for nonfiction, comes a poignant love letter to his birthplace and homeland, East Africa--a powerful and surprising portrait that only an insider could write. Part travelogue, part memoir, and part history-rarely-told, here is a powerful and timely portrait of a constantly evolving land.--Provided by publisher
Notes: Includes bibliographical references: pages 373-379.

Issued also in electronic format.
Table of contents: title: Going home; title: Gaam, Dar es Salaam: The India Town; title: Gaam strikes back: The larning tower and other recent developments; title: The road to Tanga; title: Tanga, decline in the sun; title: India and Africa: Of entrepreneurs old and new; title: Kilwa, the Old City; title: Quiloa, the Island; title: The msytics down the road: Discovering the Sufis; title: Burton and Speke, and the East African expedition of 1857; title: The old westbound caravan route; title: Bongoland: Something is happening; title: Kigoma and Ujiji: the long road; title: The South Coast: A Journey Shortened; title: The Sourthern Highlands: Tukuyu - Neue Langenberg; title: The Southern Highlands: Mbeya; title: Book, medicine, and spirit; title: Zanzibar: Island in the Sun; title: Zanzibar: The Revolution; title: Zanzibar: The sweet and the smelly; title: The Old Warriors: Dar es Salaam again; title: Omba-omba: The culture of begging; title: The New (Asian) African: Politics and creativity; title: Nairobi, lost and regained?; title: Closing the circle.