A Letter to My Dying
Mother
Surviving in the West
Robert Peprah-Gyamfi
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A Letter to My Dying Mother : Surviving in the West |
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How can words describe the huge difference between life in a little village in a typical developing country in Africa and that of a city in the sophisticated West? Well, that exactly is what the book sets out to achieve.
This often humorous, sometimes poignant book goes to
considerable lengths to review almost every aspect of life in the two
highly contrasting settings of an African village and the sophisticated
lifestyle of an industrialised city as found in modern Germany—from the family
set-up within the two differing communities, the way conflicts in
both societies are resolved, how the two societies bury their dead,
right down to developments in social infrastructure. It is a book that
will be read with interest not only by anyone from the developing
countries aspiring for the first time to visit the West, but also by any
resident of the industrialised West keen to know how the
common peasant population of a village like Mpintimpi in a
developing country go about their daily lives.
Book Description
What a world we live in! Whereas in some places residents have to fight hard to resist the temptation not to overfeed themselves, at other places people are threatened at best with malnutrition, if not starvation.
In this readable and entertaining book, the author, who came from Ghana to become a medical doctor in Germany, sets out to highlight some of these inequalities as he attempts to compare and contrast the simple and communal lifestyle of a traditional African society with the sophisticated and egocentric one he found in Western society. Addressed to his mother in her final battle with death, and sent through a fictitious courier, it attempts, among other things, to give her, a woman who spent all her life in a typical African countryside, an idea of the things she would have seen and experienced on a visit to her son resident in the northern German city of Hannover.
The book is an invaluable guide for anyone from a developing country who for the first time visits or wishes to settle in the West; but it will also be read with keen interest by people in the West wishing to know more of traditional African society.
About the author
Robert Peprah-Gyamfi was born
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Also by Robert Peprah-Gyamfi:
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The Call that Changed my Life |
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This inspiring story tells of the courage of a young Ghanaian boy who, having failed to achieve his aim to become a medical doctor by attending a university in Ghana or by virtue of a scholarship to the USSR, raised funds by working on a building site in Nigeria to pay for a daring one-way flight to East Berlin to become an asylum seeker in West Berlin—a route by which he realised his dreams and became a medical doctor in Germany.
Be Encouraged in Jesus  by Robert Peprah-Gyamfi |
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$9.35 Format: Paperback Size : 21.6 x 14 x 0.7 cm Pages: 252 ISBN: 0-595-32298-0 Publisher: Xulon Press Published: 31 Jan 2007 |
A collection of poems of praise and supplication. The verses remind us that the Lord's grace, strength and love are sufficient for our needs and will sustain us throughout any difficulty.
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Three Cheers for Ghana! by Robert Peprah-Gyamfi |
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£10.00 US price:
$18.95 Format: Paperback Size: 6 x 9 Pages: 224 ISBN: 0-595-48523-5 Published: Jan-2008 |
Other formats: HARD COVER: UK price: £15.00 US price: $28.95
The author, a medical doctor in the UK, revisits his native Ghana after 13 years' absence to find many positive changes and developments in spite of lingering economic and social problems. The book is a fascinating journey of discovery for the reader new to Ghana, but will be enjoyed by Ghanaian readers too.
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