The autobiography of an African princess / / Fatima Massaquoi ; edited with an introduction by Vivian Seton, Konrad Tuchscherer, and Arthur Abraham.
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, New York : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2013. |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (300 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of 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.