Name: Goodbye, dr Banda: Lessons for the West From a Small African Country (en Inglés)
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Author: Chula Alexander
ISBN: 9781846977305

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Goodbye, dr Banda: Lessons for the West From a Small African Country (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

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Polygon

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Chula Alexander

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Inglés

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9781846977305

Goodbye, dr Banda: Lessons for the West From a Small African Country (en Inglés)

Chula Alexander (Autor) · Polygon · Libro Físico

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"Chula's powerfully thought-provoking book shows the folly of treating Western high culture as merely a tool for self-flagellation. Properly embraced, it can be a route for engagement with the equal wealth of other cultures, rather than division." - The Critic'You may never have been, may never go, may never even have heard of the place - but Malawi will repay your attention. It is one of the smallest, poorest countries in Africa, often overlooked; but its relationship with us in the West has been extraordinary.'How to engage with cultures profoundly unlike our own? We travel the world compulsively, wanting to reach out, but seldom feeling sure of how to do so.A small African country presents us with a near perfect case study. From David Livingstone and the early missionaries, through British colonialists, to today's tourists, aid workers, and even Madonna, Malawi has experienced the whole gamut of Westerners, all trying to connect.This has made for an extraordinary meeting of worlds, between one of the continent's most fascinating indigenous cultures, and the best and worst of our own. Unexpected and exhilarating, by turns edifying and uncomfortable, it is a story with urgent lessons for our vexed age of identity crisis and multi-cultural faltering.Here tribal ritual collides with Ancient Greek theatre; roving classicists with ancestral spirits; poets and pop stars with missionary-explorers; hippies and kleptocrats with long-suffering peasants - a tumultuous masquerade around the enigmatic Dr Banda.