In this stunning memoir, a correspondent for "The Washington Post" takes readers on a riveting journey through Africa during the pivotal years of the late 1990s and illuminates a continent where hope and humanity thrive amid unimaginable depredation and brutal horrors.
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In this stunning memoir, a correspondent for "The Washington Post" takes readers on a riveting journey through Africa during the pivotal years of the late 1990s and illuminates a continent where hope and humanity thrive amid unimaginable depredation and brutal horrors.
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Good in good dust jacket. First Edition. First edition, first printing. DJ with light edge wear. Boards and spine intact. No markings to pages. Tracking available on most domestic orders.
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Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
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Very Good Condition in Good jacket. The text is clean, there are several pages that are crinkled as if this was done in handling. The Cover is in very nice condition. The Dust Jacket has some wear with a small tear on the lower spine edge of the jacket. Quantity Available: 1. ISBN: 0385503989. ISBN/EAN: 9780385503983. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1560747104.
Edition:
First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]
Publisher:
Doubleday Books
Published:
2003
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
16743805571
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John Madere (Jacket Photo) Very Good in Very Good jacket. x, 294 pages. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Inscription reads: To David--Enjoy the Journey! Lynne Duke. Includes Author's Note, Finding My Way, The Dream, Mandela's Reality, In Need of Armor, Smoke and Mirrors, Comrades and Capitalists, Truth and Chains, The Elephants Fight, Mobutu's Fading Spots, Exit Mobutu, Lyrics of African Lives, Winniephobia, With Impunity, The Scramble for Congo, An African American Woman, Coffins and Whispers, Madiba's Twilight, Epilogue, Acknowledgments, and Index of Names and Places. For four years as her newspaper's Johannesburg bureau chief, Lynne Duke cut a rare figure as a black American woman foreign correspondent as she raced from story to story in numerous countries of central and southern Africa. From the battle zones of Congo-Zaire to the quest for truth and reconciliation in South Africa; from the teeming displaced person's camps of Angola and the killing fields of the Rwanda genocide to the calming Indian Ocean shores of Mozambique, Lynne Duke interviewed heads of state, captains of industry, activists, tribal leaders, medicine men and women, mercenaries, rebels, refugees, and ordinary, hard-working people. It is the people of Africa who fueled the hope and affection that drove Duke's reporting. The nobility of the ordinary African's struggles, so often absent from accounts of the continent, is at the heart of Duke's searing story. Lynne Duke (July 29, 1956-April 19, 2013) she was a journalist and author. Her 2003 book, Mandela, Mobutu and Me, is a critically acclaimed memoir chronicling her four-year term as chief of the Washington Post s African bureau and was nominated for the National Community of Black Writers' Hurston-Wright Legacy Award in 2004. After her return to the U.S., Duke served as the Washington Post New York City bureau chief for a year. She later returned to Washington D.C. and wrote long-form features for the Style section, eventually becoming editor and retiring from the paper in 2008. Duke was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer in 2009. After her death in 2013, the National Association of Black Journalists established the Lynne Duke International Fellowship to honor the memory and legacy of the longtime journalist and member of their community. In this stunning memoir, veteran Washington Post correspondent Lynne Duke takes readers on a wrenching but riveting journey through Africa during the pivotal 1990s and brilliantly illuminates a continent where hope and humanity thrive amid unimaginable depredation and horrors. MANDELA, MOBUTU, AND ME is a richly detailed, clear-eyed account of the hard realities Duke discovered, including the devastation wrought by ruthless, rapacious dictators like Mobutu Sese Seko and his successor, Laurent Kabila, in the Congo, and appalling indifference of Europeans and Americans to the legacy of their own exploitation of the continent and its people. But Duke also records with admiration the visionary leadership and personal style of Nelson Mandela in south Africa as he led his country's inspiring transition from apartheid in the twilight of his incredible life. Whether it was touring underground gold and copper mines, learning to carry water on her head, filing stories by flashlight or dodging gunmen, Duke's tour of Africa reveals not only the spirit and travails of an amazing but troubled continent--it also explores the heart and fearlessness of a dedicated journalist.
