6 books whose dramas unfold through the eyes of African children
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touts six other books whose dramas unfold through the eyes of African children.
A classic in my native Cameroon, this novel explores a community attempting to blend its indigenous ways with the Christianity thrust upon it by European missionaries. The innocence of its young narrator, Tansa, gives the book its heart and comic flair.
Many in the West associate Africa with war and autocrats. There's certainly quite a bit of that, but there's also so much more, and Moore shows us that in her memoir about her family's escape from Liberia in the midst of a civil war. Her work is a testament to the fact that wars come and go but love remains.