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Destination - Abdul B. Kamara |
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Our Price: $12.00
Readers In Sierra Leone: Le.10,000
Publisher: SLWS |
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FOREWORD By:
Hon. Dr Alpha T. Wurie
Minister of Education, Republic
of Sierra Leone
April 2003 |
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In this mirthful narrative, the author presents a typical
account of challenges that confronted university education in
most of Africa in the last two decades. The author uses simple
and straightforward English in revealing the complex issues
and circumstances that defined the plight of African students
in their quest for tertiary education in the 1980s. The apparent
state of uncertainty – economic and political – that characterised
this period provided the driving force for most students to
go abroad.
The author's exceptional dexterity in creative writing empowers
him with a distinctive authority to undertake this focused analysis
of the reasons for the desperation of students to seek tertiary
education abroad, and the fate of those who went to the Eastern
Bloc, particularly to China. An exhilarating synopsis of the
opportunities and challenges of studying in China is presented
from an African perspective. The requisite academic and social
adjustments to student life in China are quickly attained, but
the first year of university work is marred by pervasive students'
insurrections, which constitute a thrust among the reasons for
the author's relocation to study in Germany. Studying in Germany
after the Chinese episode equips the author with a wealth of
experience that qualifies him for undertaking this in-depth
analysis that contrasts student life in the East as experienced
in China, with that in the West – as experienced in Germany.
This excellent narrative portrays creativity and originality
in literary style and presentation of a series of hilarious
events of academic relevance. It is educative and richly informative
and keeps the reader absorbed in entertaining fictionalised
facts. The book will be useful especially to students at higher
secondary school and early university levels. It is a pioneering
piece of literary work that is extremely worth reading. |
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