Searching Soul Down Inna Southern Africa [Paperback]

Odimumba Kwamdela (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 1997

The author documents his 1998 sojourn in South Africa and bordering nations in such a manner that readers will get the feeling of being right there beside him sharing in this most interesting experience.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

You really ought to do yourself a favor and read him!

With the experience of living for over 35 years in England, Canada, the U.S.A., the Middle East. Also having traveled to several other nations, including Africa over the years, and possessing an excellent Power-of-the-Word ability that allows him to write such interesting and poignantly detailed books, the writings of Barbados-born Odimumba Kwamdela will certainly captivate you.

About the Author

In 1960 while in his early teens, and still known by his given name John A. Brathwaite, he who would some years later change his name to Odimumba Kwamdela, left his native Barbados for London, England. He eventually enlisted in the British Army and served in the Mideast. After military service, he left London for Ontario, Canada. There he freelanced with Toronto newspapers before becoming founding publisher and editor of Spear, reputed to be the first Black magazine published in Canada. Eventually becoming disappointed with what he saw as the limitation of Spear in a nation with too small a Black population, and believing the "controversial" label given to the original edition of his book, Niggers This is Canada, made him the object of governmental harrassment, he exiled himself to New York City. There, around the mid-1970's, he made the decision to discard the name J. Ashton Brathwaite under which he had written and published. To date, Kwamdela has published 12 books of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, and a musically dubbed power-of-the-word (poetry) CD.

Product Details

• Paperback: 70 pages
• Publisher: Kibo Books (August 1, 1997)
• ISBN-10: 0941266133
• ISBN-13: 978-0941266130