Travelling While Black, Nanjala Nyabola
Travelling While Black, Nanjala Nyabola
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Travelling While Black
Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move

Author: Nanjala Nyabola

Narrator: Dami Olukoya

Unabridged: 8 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/08/2021


Synopsis

What does it feel like to move through a world designed to limit and exclude you? What are the joys and pains of holidays for people of colour, when guidebooks are never written with them in mind? How are black lives today impacted by the othering legacy of colonial cultures and policies? What can travel tell us about our sense of self, of home, of belonging and identity? Why has the world order become hostile to human mobility, as old as humanity itself, when more people are on the move than ever?

Nanjala Nyabola is constantly exploring the world, working with migrants and confronting complex realities challenging common assumptions – both hers and others’. From Nepal to Botswana, Sicily to Haiti, New York to Nairobi, her sharp, humane essays ask tough questions and offer surprising, deeply shocking and sometimes funny answers. It is time we saw the world through her eyes.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ashley

Brilliant collection of essays that touch on such important topics that definitely changed how I view things - travel and all.......more

Goodreads review by Soila

This is such a prescient book that got me at just the right time. Semi-autibiographical in nature, it charts the author's path to "enlightenment". That mobility, whether as a traveler or as a migrant is deeply rooted in the world and always will be. To understand that is to understand that we are al......more

Goodreads review by Mbogo

I have so many good memories with this. So many. There was that essay I read while my neighbour's dogs howled in the background, the other one I read in the friendly early morning sun while my cat shielded itself using the shadow cast by the book or that Haiti essay which I read on my way home as du......more