|
Devil that Danced on the Water:
A Daughter’s Memoir
Aminatta Forna (HarperCollins)
Aminatta Forna's intensely personal history is a passionate
and vivid account of an African childhood, of an idyll which
became the stuff of nightmare. As a child she witnessed the
upheavals of post-colonial Africa, danger, flight, the bitterness
of exile in Britain and the terrible consequences of her
dissident father's stand against tyranny.
Forna’s search for the truth that shaped both her
childhood and the nation’s destiny begins among the
country’s elite and took her into the heart of the
rebel territory. Determined to break the silence surrounding
her father’s fate, she ultimately uncovered a conspiracy
that penetrated the highest reaches of government and forced
the nation’s politicians and judiciary to confront
their guilt.
Aminatta Forna is a journalist broadcaster and TV presenter.
As an impressive speaker she has won several awards and one
of her programmes on foreign adoption promoted a change in
the law. Forna has previously contributed to ‘Itzin’s
Pornography: Women, Violence and Civil Liberties’ (OUP)
and ‘Conversations with Maya Angelou’ (Virago).
She lives in London.
|
