The autobiography of an African princess
Fatima Massaquoi (Author), Vivian Seton (Editor), Konrad Tuchscherer (Editor), Arthur Abraham (Editor)
This critical edition of Princess Fatima Massaquoi's memoirs begins with her birth in southern Sierra Leone, continues through her childhood in Liberia, moves on to Hamburg, Germany, where she lived and experienced the rise of the Nazi movement, and ends with her life in the United States
eBook, English, 2013
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Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY, 2013
History
1 online resource (xxiii, 274 pages) : illustrations, maps
9781137102508, 1137102500
864712782
My birthplace, ethnicity and parents
My birth and customs about childbirth in the Gallinas country
Life and customs in the Bali (Bari) country of Sierra Leone
Life and customs in the Vai country of Liberia
On beauty and aspects of Vai social organization
Life in Monrovia
School begins at Julie C. Emery Hall
More on life at the mission school
I bid farewell to Liberia
I arrive in Germany
I meet a Nazi : and more on the work of the consulate-general
Hard times, "isms" and school
Christmas and school trips in Germany
The "invincibles" and my departure for Switzerland
L'ecole superieure et secondaire (Switzerland) and rough times on my return to Germany
Departure for America
Welcome for a "savage" at Lane College and death of Father
The Fisk University saga
Goodbye friends : you shall be hearing from me
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