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The Python Trail

- An Immigrant's Path from Cameroon to America
Af: Richard Afuma Engelsk Paperback

The Python Trail

- An Immigrant's Path from Cameroon to America
Af: Richard Afuma Engelsk Paperback
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Growing up in remote Cameroon, Richard Afuma could not expect to live much past the age of 40, and his chances of any sort of education were slim. But at the age of eight, Afuma found his way to a school run by Baptist missionaries, where he learned to write on banana leaves. When he was ten, he saw his first white person who, from the evidence of a flip chart at school, he took to be Jesus Christ. He was told that the Land Rovers and Land Cruisers he saw driving down the rutted roads of Kom were made by these same people—Jesuses with supernatural powers—who were uniformly called Americans.  In The Python Trail, Afuma portrays the kind of journey that many immigrants have made, but few have described. When he arrived in Maine as a college freshman, he’d never heard of a washing machine, a microwave oven, or a coffee maker; the bed sheets were so clean and white, he was afraid he’d dirty them; and he believed computer printers were run by ghosts. As much as anything, Afuma was shocked to learn that poverty and homelessness existed in a place whose streets he’d thought were paved with gold. It had never occurred to him that he himself might face hardships here, so that, despite having earned a master’s degree in public administration, he would fail time and time again to find meaningful employment. Scam artists preyed on him. Racism, though subtle, followed him wherever he went.
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Growing up in remote Cameroon, Richard Afuma could not expect to live much past the age of 40, and his chances of any sort of education were slim. But at the age of eight, Afuma found his way to a school run by Baptist missionaries, where he learned to write on banana leaves. When he was ten, he saw his first white person who, from the evidence of a flip chart at school, he took to be Jesus Christ. He was told that the Land Rovers and Land Cruisers he saw driving down the rutted roads of Kom were made by these same people—Jesuses with supernatural powers—who were uniformly called Americans.  In The Python Trail, Afuma portrays the kind of journey that many immigrants have made, but few have described. When he arrived in Maine as a college freshman, he’d never heard of a washing machine, a microwave oven, or a coffee maker; the bed sheets were so clean and white, he was afraid he’d dirty them; and he believed computer printers were run by ghosts. As much as anything, Afuma was shocked to learn that poverty and homelessness existed in a place whose streets he’d thought were paved with gold. It had never occurred to him that he himself might face hardships here, so that, despite having earned a master’s degree in public administration, he would fail time and time again to find meaningful employment. Scam artists preyed on him. Racism, though subtle, followed him wherever he went.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 234
ISBN-13: 9781608934058
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1608934055
Kategori: Selvbiografier: historie, politik og militær
Udg. Dato: 7 aug 2015
Længde: 15mm
Bredde: 140mm
Højde: 214mm
Forlag: Rowman & Littlefield
Oplagsdato: 7 aug 2015
Forfatter(e): Richard Afuma
Forfatter(e) Richard Afuma

Kategori Selvbiografier: historie, politik og militær

ISBN-13 9781608934058

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 234

Udgave

Længde 15mm

Bredde 140mm

Højde 214mm

Udg. Dato 7 aug 2015

Oplagsdato 7 aug 2015

Forlag Rowman & Littlefield