Kinship

A family memoir that broadens into an exploration of three hundred years of shared history & the cultural ties that continue to bond Africans & African Americans. Philippe Wamba's parents were born & raised on either side of an ocean. When his African-American mother married his Congolese father in 1966, the family they would raise in Boston, Massachusetts, & Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, would become a test case of the Pan-African ideal: that black people around the world share common interests, common goals, & a common destiny. Wamba uses his personal experiences to illustrate many myths & misconceptions that threaten to divide Africans & African Americans, providing valuable insight into the complexity of relationships within the international black community while celebrating the strength drawn from these two rich traditions. Beautifully written & extensively researched, Kinship seamlessly weaves three centuries of history literature, political activism, religion, & popular culture into one compelling family story.Wamba, Philippe is the author of 'Kinship' with ISBN 9780525943877 and ISBN 0525943870.