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The autobiography of an African princess / by Fatima Massaquoi ; edited with an introduction by Vivian Seton, Konrad Tuchscherer, and Arthur Abraham.
Van Pelt Library DT630.5.V2 M37 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Massaquoi, Fatima, 1904?-1978, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Massaquoi, Fatima, 1904?-1978.
- Massaquoi, Fatima.
- Vai (African people)--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Vai (African people).
- Vai (African people)--Germany--Social conditions--20th century.
- Vai (African people)--United States--Social conditions--20th century.
- Manners and customs.
- Social conditions.
- Liberia--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Liberia.
- United States.
- Germany.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 274 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Contents:
- My birthplace, ethnicity and parents
- My birth and customs about childbirth in the Gallinas country
- Life and customs in the Bali (Bari) country of Sierra Leone
- Life and customs in the Vai country of Liberia
- On beauty and aspects of Vai social organization
- Life in Monrovia
- School begins at Julie C. Emery Hall
- More on life at the mission school
- I bid farewell to Liberia
- I arrive in Germany
- I meet a Nazi
- and more on the work of the consulate-general
- Hard times, "isms" and school
- Christmas and school trips in Germany
- The "invincibles" and my departure for Switzerland
- L'ecole superieure et secondaire (Switzerland) and rough times on my return to Germany
- Departure for America
- Welcome for a "savage" at Lane College and death of Father
- The Fisk University saga
- Goodbye friends
- you shall be hearing from me.
- ISBN:
- 9780230609587
- 0230609589
- OCLC:
- 842330083
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