Out of Darkness, Shining Light2x
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Petina Gappah's epic journey through nineteenth-century Africa -
following the funeral caravan who bore Bwana Daudi's body - is
'engrossing, beautiful and deeply imaginative.' (Yaa Gyasi)This is
the story of the body of Bwana Daudi, the Doctor, the explorer
David Livingstone - and the sixty-nine men and women who carried
his remains for 1,500 miles so that he could be borne across the
sea and buried in his own country.The wise men of his age say
Livingstone blazed into the darkness of their native land leaving a
track of light behind where white men who followed him could tread
in perfect safety. But in Petina Gappah's radical novel, it is
those in the shadows of history - those who saved a white man's
bones, his dark companions, his faithful retinue on an epic funeral
march - whose voices are resurrected with searing intensity. This
final, fateful journey across the African interior is lead by
Halima, Livingstone's sharp-tongued cook, and three of his most
devoted servants: Jacob, Chuma and Susi. Their tale of how his
corpse was borne out of nineteenth-century Africa - carrying the
maps that sowed the seeds of the continent's brutal colonisation -
has the power of myth. It is not only symbolic of slavery's
hypocrisy, but a portrait of a world trembling on the cusp of total
change - and a celebration of human bravery, loyalty and love.
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