by Camara Laye · Addison Wesley Longman ELT Division (a Pearson Education company) · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780003701425
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«The African Child» is Camara Laye's childhood memoir, published by Addison Wesley Longman in paperback (80 pages, in English).
In this memoir, Camara Laye recalls his childhood in the village of Koroussa, French Guinea: his father's goldsmith trade, his mother's role, linked to supernatural powers, and a community governed by animist beliefs. The narrative also shows his passage to adulthood, marked by rituals of ancestral origin.
1980 edition of the Collins English Library Level 4 series, graded readers for learning English. Adaptation of L'Enfant noir (1953), edited by Sally Lowe.
Recommended for students of English as a foreign language and for those beginning to read in English.
Camara Laye was a writer from Guinea. His most well-known works are The African Child, a novel based loosely on his own childhood, and The Radiance of the King. Both novels are among the earliest major works in Francophone African literature. Camara Laye later worked for the government of newly independent Guinea, but went into voluntary exile over political issues.
