Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Ebook188 pages2 hours
A Stranger's Pose
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
4/5
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
A unique blend of travelogue, musings and poetry, A Stranger's Pose draws the reader into a world of encounters haunted by the absence of home, estrangement from a lover and family tragedies. The author's recollections and reflections of fragments of his journeys to African cities, from Dakar to Douala, Bamako to Benin, and Khartoum to Casablanca, offer a compelling and very personal meditation on the meaning of home and the generosity of strangers to a lone traveller. Alongside accounts of the author's own travels are other narratives about movement, intimacy, the power of language and translation.
Whilst echoing the writings of Anne Michaels and John Berger, this remarkable book charts a path of its own that will redefine travel writing.
Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2019
Unavailable
Related to A Stranger's Pose
Related ebooks
10 Years of the Caine Prize for African Writing: Plus Coetzee, Gordimer, Achebe, Okri The Whispering Trees Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5GraceLand: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Face: Cartography of the Void Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Caine Prize for African Writing 2016: The Daily Assortment of Astonishing Things and Other Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHullo, Bu-Bye, Koko, Come In Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Mrs. Shaw: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Women are Different Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Coming to Birth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Caine Prize for African Writing 2014 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5An Act of Defiance Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lusaka Punk and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2015 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Efuru. 50th Anniversary Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Hundred Silences Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLet's Tell This Story Properly: Let’s Tell This Story Properly Short Story Singles Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Madams Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Bit of Difference Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Extinction of Menai: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRain Can Never Know Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5No Sweetness Here: And Other Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dance of the Jakaranda Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Other Woman Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wives at War Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Tomorrow Died Yesterday Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fertile Imagination and Other Stories Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5No Time to Mourn: An anthology by South Sudanese Women Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsYellow Means Stay: An anthology of love stories from Africa Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSoweto, Under the Apricot Tree Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Africa Travel For You
Blood River: The Terrifying Journey through the World's Most Dangerous Country Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Kebra Nagast: The Lost Bible of Rastafarian Wisdom and Faith Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Yoruba-English/ English-Yoruba Dictionary & Phrasebook Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Eye of the Elephant: An Epic Adventure in the African Wilderness Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Smart Money Woman Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Zoo in My Luggage Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fodor's Essential Morocco Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLonely Planet Ethiopia & Djibouti Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLove, Africa: A Memoir of Romance, War, and Survival Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5West with the Night (Warbler Classics) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLonely Planet South Africa, Lesotho & Eswatini Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe 21: A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cry Of The Kalahari Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stories of the Sahara Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The South African Story: 4th Edition Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sands Of Silence: On Safari In Namibia Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Spirit of Place: Letters and Essays on Travel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Book of Marvels: The Orient Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Death in the Long Grass: A Big Game Hunter's Adventures in the African Bush Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Kenya - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Berlitz Pocket Guide Mauritius (Travel Guide eBook): (Travel Guide eBook) Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Lonely Planet Africa Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Death in a Lonely Land: More Hunting, Fishing, and Shooting on Five Continents Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Swahili Grammar for Introductory and Intermediate Levels: Sarufi ya Kiswahili cha Ngazi ya Kwanza na Kati Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Peter Capstick's Africa: A Return To The Long Grass Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lonely Planet Cape Town & the Garden Route Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Weight of Sand: My 450 Days Held Hostage in the Sahara Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related podcast episodes
Love in Color 0% found this document usefulEpisode 55: Wanuri Kahiu: Director Wanuri Kahiu on her joyous battle for Kenya’s soul 0% found this document useful16. That’s a Lot of Peanuts 0% found this document useful49. What future is there for a fish and bird? 0% found this document usefulSeinfeld and Solnit 0% found this document usefulWhat Does Your Ocean Whisper? Part 3 of Living for Real 0% found this document usefulDLO 19: WE'RE STILL HERE: Dead Letter Office of Somewhere, Ohio 0% found this document usefulMy Parents Are Rich but i live in a sewer | My Animated Story ? 0% found this document usefulThe Perfect Woman 0% found this document usefulCurves Cost Money 0% found this document useful“Remember” by Christina Georgina Rossetti 0% found this document useful
Related articles
Writing About Infertility in a World that Sees Childless Marriage as Tragedy Literary HubArticle
Writing About Infertility in a World that Sees Childless Marriage as Tragedy
Aug 23, 2017
5 min readWole Soyinka's Long-awaited Third Novel Isn't His Best Work NPRArticle
Wole Soyinka's Long-awaited Third Novel Isn't His Best Work
Oct 2, 2021
3 min readMukoma Wa Ngugi: What Decolonizing the Mind Means Today Literary HubArticle
Mukoma Wa Ngugi: What Decolonizing the Mind Means Today
Mar 23, 2018
12 min readThe Two Yewandes Of Jo’burg New InternationalistArticle
The Two Yewandes Of Jo’burg
Apr 16, 2020
2 min readChronicles From The Land Of The Happiest People On Earth Review – Nigeria Unmasked The GuardianArticle
Chronicles From The Land Of The Happiest People On Earth Review – Nigeria Unmasked
Oct 14, 2021
Wole Soyinka won the Nobel prize for literature in 1986, the first black person to win the award. He is perhaps the most versatile of African writers, equally at home in all genres; his dramatic masterpieces, such as Kongi’s Harvest and Death and the
3 min readCherie Jones Writing MagazineArticle
Cherie Jones
Jan 7, 2021
3 min readSomehow I Found You: On Black Archival Practices C MagazineArticle
Somehow I Found You: On Black Archival Practices
Mar 5, 2018
8 min readThe Sex Lives Of African Women DIVAArticle
The Sex Lives Of African Women
Oct 1, 2021
3 min readTake Her Word(s) For It India TodayArticle
Take Her Word(s) For It
Apr 9, 2022
3 min readAfter Kaddish Guernica MagazineArticle
After Kaddish
Sep 27, 2018
9 min readGhost Girl, Banana HELLO magazineArticle
Ghost Girl, Banana
Aug 21, 2023
By the time I was 25, there were only two things I remembered about Mumma. The first was that she smelled of watermelons, the second was that we were happy. We’d taken our father’s name of course, but a name is only half a story. The other half exist
6 min readRoundtrip For One MEGAArticle
Roundtrip For One
Nov 1, 2019
5 min readChristopher Paul Stelling Explains His New Album 'Itinerant Arias,' Track By Track NPRArticle
Christopher Paul Stelling Explains His New Album 'Itinerant Arias,' Track By Track
May 5, 2017
5 min readWhat Travel Can, and Cannot, Teach Us The AtlanticArticle
What Travel Can, and Cannot, Teach Us
May 23, 2022
4 min readPoet Michael Wasson: From Kurt Cobain to Village Life in Japan Literary HubArticle
Poet Michael Wasson: From Kurt Cobain to Village Life in Japan
Apr 24, 2018
9 min readJan Morris The Paris ReviewArticle
Jan Morris
Jun 15, 2018
I have always rather envied the poet Ovid, who was banished from Rome by the emperor Augustus, you may remember, to a remote place called Tomis on the shores of the Black Sea. There he died, ten years later, and his exile has gone into legend and int
17 min readSweet Fantasy Harper's Bazaar IndiaArticle
Sweet Fantasy
Nov 20, 2021
8 min readMonica Sok on Writing the Cambodian Story Beyond Trauma Literary HubArticle
Monica Sok on Writing the Cambodian Story Beyond Trauma
Apr 30, 2020
11 min readA Novel That Celebrates—and Mourns—Pre-Revolutionary Iran Literary HubArticle
A Novel That Celebrates—and Mourns—Pre-Revolutionary Iran
Feb 11, 2020
5 min readLife In The past Lane go: PlattelandArticle
Life In The past Lane
Aug 27, 2021
5 min readStaff Picks: Hipster Stewardesses, Swedish Paper Mills, Soil The Paris ReviewArticle
Staff Picks: Hipster Stewardesses, Swedish Paper Mills, Soil
May 19, 2017
4 min readSix Poems The American Poetry ReviewArticle
Six Poems
Feb 28, 2023
Dear C, At first Virgil’s poem is quite dull; equivocalnames of products at The Container Store: Elfa White Medium Drawer, Mesh NarrowRolling Cart (Medium Solution), Narrow Classic Mesh Box and the number of pirouetting starseach product attained. An
5 min readJasmine Fingers Guernica MagazineArticle
Jasmine Fingers
Aug 22, 2019
14 min readA Brief History of the Women Who Disappeared Literary HubArticle
A Brief History of the Women Who Disappeared
Apr 9, 2019
9 min readA Little Love Guernica MagazineArticle
A Little Love
Apr 5, 2023
7 min readYou Have to Suffer Guernica MagazineArticle
You Have to Suffer
Sep 23, 2020
19 min readWhere We Write Poets & WritersArticle
Where We Write
Feb 9, 2017
9 min readHoliday For One goArticle
Holiday For One
Mar 24, 2023
4 min readSelected Sentences from Mark Twain’s Life on the Mississippi The Paris ReviewArticle
Selected Sentences from Mark Twain’s Life on the Mississippi
May 9, 2018
6 min readJill Bialosky: The Time I Moved to New York City to Be a Poet Literary HubArticle
Jill Bialosky: The Time I Moved to New York City to Be a Poet
Aug 17, 2017
9 min read
Reviews for A Stranger's Pose
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
4/5
2 ratings0 reviews