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- ISBN 9781849049603
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jun 2018
- Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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In a world dominated by the British Empire, and at a time when many Europeans considered black people inferior, Sierra Leonean writer A. B. C. Merriman-Labor claimed his right to describe the world as he found it. He looked at the Empire's great capital and laughed.
In this first biography of Merriman-Labor, Danell Jones describes the tragic spiral that pulled him down the social ladder from writer and barrister to munitions worker, from witty observer of the social order to patient in a state-run hospital for the poor. In restoring this extraordinary man to the pantheon of African observers of colonialism, she opens a window onto racial attitudes in Edwardian London.
An African in Imperial London is a rich portrait of a great metropolis, writhing its way into a new century of appalling social inequity, world-transforming inventions, and unprecedented demands for civil rights.
WINNER OF THE HIGH PLAINS BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION
Danell Jones is a writer and scholar whose works have appeared in a wide variety of publications,from British academic journals to small presses. She has a PhD in literature from Columbia University and is the author of 'The Virginia Woolf Writers’ Workshop' and 'Desert Elegy'.
