Product Description: As a young man, Samuel Johnson, one of the most celebrated English authors of the eighteenth century, translated A Voyage to Abyssinia by Jeronimo Lobo, a tome by a Portuguese missionary about the country now known as Ethiopia. Far from being a potboiler, this translation left an indelible imprint on Johnson...read more

The author recounts her experiences returning to Ghana, where she spent much of her childhood, and shares her observations on how Africans are handling their interaction with Western culture