Black Ghosts
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- Synopsis
- Dan Chiponda earns a scholarship to study in China and reluctantly leaves his native Zimbabwe for an uncertain future. Learning to take racial abuse in his stride, he dates a fellow student, Lai Ying, who is attracted to his easygoing manner. He remains haunted by the weight of his mother's expectations, encapsulated by the image of the African fish eagle. Things take a dramatic turn when Chinese students pour into the streets in an orgy of violence to drive Africans out of town. The situation in Nanjing only stabilises when attention turns to the mayhem that is unraveling in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. But that is only the beginning of Dan's troubles with the 'Campus Gestapo', loan sharks in Hong Kong, and the shock of his family getting caught up in the violence by Mugabe's war vets. Black Ghosts is inspired by stories of Africans living in China in the 1980s and, in particular, by the little-known incident in Nanjing, where African and Chinese students engaged each other in a violent battle just months before the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
- Copyright:
- 2013
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9789966052056
- Publisher:
- Master Publishing / The Can-Do! Company
- Date of Addition:
- 07/07/14
- Copyrighted By:
- Ken N. Kamoche
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.