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  • Shine Your Eye: In Search of West Africa

    Shine Your Eye by Májà-Pearce, Adéwálé;

    In Search of West Africa

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    Product details:

    • Publisher C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
    • Date of Publication 8 January 2026

    • ISBN 9781805264125
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages264 pages
    • Size 216x138 mm
    • Language English
    • 700

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    Short description:

    An acclaimed British-Nigerian writer's odyssey through West Africa, starkly transformed since his youth.

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    An acclaimed British-Nigerian writer's odyssey through West Africa, starkly transformed since his youth.


    West Africa is at a crossroads. Boasting tremendous natural wealth, its inhabitants are among the world's poorest. Despite apparent multi-party democracy, there have been coups, conflict and corruption since independence. Where can it go from here?


    Journeying along the coast and across the Sahel, from Ghana to Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone to Senegal, Adéwálé Májà-Pearce uncovers a restless region on the verge of great change. Visiting fourteen countries--and seeking out the Nigerian diaspora in each--he reflects on these societies' dramatic shifts since the late 1980s, when he first travelled their roads. Refusing IMF loans and rejecting Western-imposed currencies, West Africa's diverse, expanding and overwhelmingly young population is staging a quiet revolution for its future, and discarding an aging elite still propped up by European power--from demonstrations against police brutality to theforced withdrawal of French troops.


    Speaking with local journalists and dissident scholars, street hawkers and immigration officers, Májà-Pearce brings to life the compelling story of a region at breaking point--as told by West Africans themselves.

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