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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Drawing the Map of Heaven. an African Writer in America

Drawing the Map of Heaven. an African Writer in America

Ojaide, Tanure

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ISBN10: 9788422527
ISBN13: 9789788422525
Publisher: Malthouse Press
Published: Jun 28 2012
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The celebrated Nigerian writer Tanure Ojaide relates here his experience of living in the United States where he has been based teaching and writing since 1996. Drawing the Map of Heaven picks up where his earlier memoir, Great Boys. An African Childhood which charted his upbringing in Nigeria by his Grandmother, left off. Less a purely personal tale and more a story of the many other African immigrants in the United States Ojaide in the text uses we to speak collectively for a traditionally communal society now residing in an individualistic setting. As much a reflection of an African background as an American experience Drawing the Map of Heaven is a unique portrait of the African in the United States

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