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Shining Light on Colonialism

Out of Darkness, Shining Light by Petina Gappah

October 2, 2019 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

Dr. David Livingstone died in May of 1873 in a village called Chitambo (in present day Zambia), located in central Africa. His African attendants buried his heart there, embalmed his body, and then transported it along with his papers over 1500 miles to Zanzibar so that they could be returned to England. The journey took 200+ days and two of the men on the trip Susi and Chuma gave a short account of it, mentioning illness and deaths within the travel party and other dangers […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: cbr11, ElCicco, Fiction, historical fiction, Out of Darkness Shining Light, Petina Gappah, ReadWomen

ElCicco's CBR11 Review No:53 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: cbr11, ElCicco, Fiction, historical fiction, Out of Darkness Shining Light, Petina Gappah, ReadWomen ·
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