AMA: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade - Herbstein, Manu
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Winner of the 2002 Commonwealth Prize for Best First Book. Thrust into a foreign land, passed from owner to owner, stripped of her identity. This is the life of Nandzi, who was given the name Ama, a name strange to her and her tribal culture. A life of struggle and resignation, bondage and freedom, passion and indifference, intense love and remorseless hate. Though forced into desperation, Ama never lets her soul be consumed by fear. While the stories of individual slaves have been blurred into one mass, Ama’s story personifies the experience of eighteenth-century Africans in an unforgettable…mehr

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Winner of the 2002 Commonwealth Prize for Best First Book. Thrust into a foreign land, passed from owner to owner, stripped of her identity. This is the life of Nandzi, who was given the name Ama, a name strange to her and her tribal culture. A life of struggle and resignation, bondage and freedom, passion and indifference, intense love and remorseless hate. Though forced into desperation, Ama never lets her soul be consumed by fear. While the stories of individual slaves have been blurred into one mass, Ama’s story personifies the experience of eighteenth-century Africans in an unforgettable way. Her entrancing story of defiance and spiritual fire starts from the day she is brutally seized, raped, and enslaved, and ends with her breathing the pure air of freedom. Ama is a deeply engrossing and colorful novel, packed with violence, sex, and action. The resilience of her spirit will grip readers from the first page to the last of Manu Herbstein’s spellbinding novel.
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Manu Herbstein was born and educated in apartheid South Africa. He has lived and worked in England, Nigeria, India, Zambia, and Scotland. Since 1970, he has made his home in Accra, Ghana. By profession a civil and structural engineer, he has contributed to the design and construction of power stations, bridges, water supply and sewage treatment plants, river works, highways, and buildings. He is a fellow of the British Institution of Structural Engineers and a fellow and onetime council member of the Ghana Institution of Engineers. In his youth, he traveled widely, especially in Africa, hitchhiking from Cape Town to Lusaka while still at school and from Nairobi to Pretoria some years later. In 1957, he worked his passage around Africa to Europe in an ocean-going tramp. In 1963, he spent three months traveling in West, Central, and East Africa. His support for and association with the African National Congress of South Africa goes back to the late fifties. Manu Herbstein first visited the slave castle at Elmina, Ghana, which features in this novel, in 1961. He has returned many times since and says that the experience never fails to move him. Civil disturbances in rural northern Ghana sparked the writing of this novel. Seeking to understand the 1994 Guinea Fowl War.