The forger's tale : the search for Odeziaku /
Between 1905 and 1939 a conspicuously tall white man with a shock of red hair, dressed in a silk shirt and white linen trousers, could be seen on the streets of Onitsha, in Eastern Nigeria. How was it possible for an unconventional, boy-loving Englishman to gain a social status among the local popul...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Athens :
Ohio University Press,
©2006.
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| Series: | New African histories series.
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| Summary: | Between 1905 and 1939 a conspicuously tall white man with a shock of red hair, dressed in a silk shirt and white linen trousers, could be seen on the streets of Onitsha, in Eastern Nigeria. How was it possible for an unconventional, boy-loving Englishman to gain a social status among the local populace enjoyed by few other Europeans in colonial West Africa? In The Forger''s Tale: The Search for Odeziaku Stephanie Newell charts the story of the English novelist and poet John Moray Stuart-Young (1881-1939) as he traveled from the slums of Manchester to West Africa in order to escape the hom. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 233 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-226) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780821442302 0821442309 0821417096 9780821417096 082141710X 9780821417102 |