Always Another Country

Name: Always Another Country
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Sisonke Msimang
ISBN: 9781666543711

Author: Sisonke Msimang

Narrator: Sisonke Msimang

Unabridged: 10 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 08/05/2021

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, African American & Black Nonfiction, Memoirs, Women

Synopsis

Born in exile, in Zambia, to a guerrilla father and a working mother, Sisonke Msimang is constantly on the move. Her parents, talented and highly educated, travel from Zambia to Kenya and Canada and beyond with their young family. Always the outsider, and against a backdrop of racism and xenophobia, Sisonke develops her keenly perceptive view of the world. In this sparkling account of a young girl’s path to womanhood, Sisonke interweaves her personal story with her political awakening in America and Africa, her euphoria at returning to the new South Africa, and her disillusionment with the new elites. Confidential and reflective, this memoir about racism and xenophobia is a search for belonging and identity: a warm and intimate story that will move many listeners.

About Sisonke Msimang

Sisonke Msimang is one of the most exciting contemporary female black voices in literature. A regular contributor to The Guardian, the Huffington Post, and the New York Times, her TED Talk has been viewed over 1.3 million times. A program director for the Center for Stories, a social enterprise organization, she often travels to the United States, South Africa, and further afield. She is currently based in Perth, Australia.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Puleng

"Another country" in this vivid, honest, lyrical and highly personal account, refers to Lusaka, Nairobi, Canada , America, South Africa, Mozambique and Australia. The countries where Sisonke resided. In the beginning as exiles with her parents and two siblings. Alone at tertiary, and eventually with......more

Goodreads review by Elena

"Ich schreibe, weil ich Schwarz bin - dieses besondere Wort, das mehr bedeutet als die braune Farbe meiner Haut. Schwarz ist eine solide Masse aus vielen Schattierungen, die alle zusammen in die Zukunft weisen: Es ist ein schwarzes Loch. Schwarz ist eine Formel, die sich selbst Einsteins Brillanz en......more

Goodreads review by Lorraine

A conversation amongst friends over a VERY LONG LUNCH. Or a weekend away. So much intimacy.........more

Goodreads review by Varsha Ravi

I inhaled this book. I couldn't pause, I couldn't put it down. By the end I was in tears, simply because I wasn't ready to let go of this remarkable journey Sisonke had taken me through. It is an exquisite, evocative, compelling memoir of a young South African girl, born in exile, an itinerant comin......more