{"product_id":"my-first-coup-detat-memories-from-the-lost-decades-of-africa","title":"My First Coup d'Etat","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn important literary debut from the Vice President of Ghana, a fable-like memoir that offers a shimmering microcosm of post-colonial Africa.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A much welcome work of immense relevance' \u003c\/b\u003eChinua Achebe\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy First Coup D'Etat\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles the coming-of-age of John Dramani Mahama in Ghana during the dismal post-independence 'lost decades' of Africa. He was seven years old when rumours of a coup reached his boarding school in Accra. His father, a minister of state, was suddenly missing, then imprisoned for more than a year.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy First Coup D'Etat\u003c\/i\u003e offers a look at the country that has long been considered Africa's success story. This is a one-of-a-kind book: Mahama's is a rare literary voice from a political leader, and his stories work on many levels - as fables, as history, as cultural and political analysis, and, of course, as the memoir of a young man who, unbeknownst to him or anyone else, would grow up to be vice president of his nation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThough non-fiction, these are stories that rise above their specific settings and transport the reader - much like the fiction of Isaac Bashevis Singer and Nadine Gordimer - into a world all their own, one which straddles a time lost and explores the universal human emotions of love, fear, faith, despair, loss, longing, and hope despite all else.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32093223125075,"sku":"9781408832684","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781408832684.jpg?v=1765026013","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/my-first-coup-detat-memories-from-the-lost-decades-of-africa","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}