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Yoruba Boy Running

Name: Yoruba Boy Running
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ISBN: 9780063417083

Biyi Bandele

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"A true artist. A brilliant writer. An original thinker."—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie A captivating, fictionalized retelling of African linguist and clergyman Samuel Ajayi Crowther's miraculous journey from slave to liberator. "Run, Àjàyí, run!" When Malian slave traders invaded the Nigerian town of Òsogùn, thirteen-year-old Àjàyí's life is split in two. Before, there was his childhood, surrounded by friends and family, watched over by the ancient Yorùbá gods of forest and water, earth and sky. After, there was capture, slavery—and eventually release—with Àjàyí, left transfigured, unrecognizable, and now, inthe service of a new god, with a new name and a culture different from the one left far behind. Àjàyí becomes Samuel Crowther—missionary, linguist, minister, and eventually abolitionist, driven to negotiate...

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Year:

2022

Publisher:

HarperCollins

Language:

English

ISBN 10:

0063417081

ISBN 13:

9780063417083