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"Aminatta Forna's intensely personal history is a passionate and vivid account of an African childhood, an idyll that became the stuff of nightmare. As a child she witnessed the upheavals of post-colonial Africa, danger, flight, the bitterness of exile in Britain, and the terrible consequences of her dissident father's stand against tyranny.".
"Mohamed Forna was a man of unimpeachable integrity and great charisma. As Sierra Leone faced its future as a fledgling democracy, he was a new star in the political firmament, a man who had been one of the first black students to come to Britain after the war. Already a political firebrand and a stylish dresser, he stole the heart of Aminatta's mother, to the dismay of her Presbyterian parents, and returned with her to Sierra Leone.
But as Aminatta Forna shows with compelling clarity, the old Africa was torn apart by the new ways of Western parliamentary democracy, which gave birth only to dictatorships and corruption of hitherto undreamed-of magnitude. It was not long before Mohamed Forna languished in jail as a prisoner of conscience, and worse was to follow.".
"Aminatta's search for the truth that shaped both her childhood and the nation's destiny began among the country's elite and took her into the heart of rebel territory. Determined to break the silence surrounding her father's fate, she ultimately uncovered a conspiracy that penetrated the highest reaches of government and forced the nation's politicians to confront their guilt."--BOOK JACKET.
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Politics and government, Family, Children, Childhood and youth, Biography, Sierra leone, Africa, biography, Africa, west, politics and governmentPeople
Aminatta Forna, Mohamed Forna, Mohammed FornaPlaces
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Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Quest
2023, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
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Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Quest
2014, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
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Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Memoir
2011, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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The devil that danced on the water: a daughter's memoir of her father, her family, her country and a continent
2003, Flamingo
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The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Quest
December 18, 2003, Grove Press
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The devil that danced on the water: a daughter's quest
2002, Atlantic Monthly Press, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
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0871138654 9780871138651
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Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Quest
2002, Zondervan
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The devil that danced on the water: a daughter's memoir of her father, her family, her country, and a continent
2002, HarperCollins
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Originally published: London : HarperCollins, 2002.
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