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At the age of thirty-three, Ekow Eshun—born in London to

African-born parents—travels to Ghana in search of his roots. He

goes from Accra, Ghana’s cosmopolitan capital city, to the storied

slave forts of Elmina, and on to the historic warrior kingdom of

Asante. During his journey, Eshun uncovers a long-held secret about

his lineage that will compel him to question everything he knows

about himself and where he comes from. From the London suburbs of

his childhood to the twenty-first century African metropolis,

Eshun’s is a moving chronicle of one man’s search for home, and of

the pleasures and pitfalls of fashioning an identity in these

vibrant contemporary worlds.

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Eshun, an African-British author and the artistic director of

the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, ventures from his

home to Ghana to explore his heritage. By his early 30s, Eshun

still cannot adequately answer the question put to him since his

school days in Queensbury: "Where are you from?" He has never felt

welcome in England, where his father, a Ghanaian government

official, moved the family in 1974. Eshun's memoir focuses on his

April 2002 trip to Ghana, on the African Gold Coast, so-called

because of the vast stores of gold the Europeans extracted. In

fact, the author comes to the painful realization that his

ancestral country colluded intimately in the African slave trade,

and his own ancestors, both the white Dutchman Joseph de Graft and

de Graft's mixed-race son, were slave traders. Eshun carries a

frozen idea of provincial Ghana from living there briefly in his

youth, and his trip proves an awkward, self-scrutinizing attempt at

reconciling the reality of the modern country, built on slavery and

scarred by discrepancies in class. Eshun elegantly incorporates

stories of previous notable travelers such as W.E.B. Du Bois and

Richard Wright—along with an occasional illustration by Ofili.

(June)

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