The Illegal Immigrant
Who is Mustapha? A respected Nigerian journalist and an aspiring filmmaker or an illegal immigrant wanted by the Home Office? Is he even Mustapha, or is he Michael, Kimani, or any one of the other identities he takes on to survive? This is not just Mustapha's story. It is a social saga with a glittering array of memorable characters embodying the ethnic and cultural diversity of London. Samuel Selvon's Lonely Londoners gave us the city from the perspective of Caribbean immigrants who arrived in the 1950s. Mohammed Umar's The Illegal Immigrant not only gives us the African experience of the 1990s, but reveals a society knitted together from a…
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- ISBN: 978-0-9572084-5-2
- EAN: 9780957208452
- Produktnummer: 22284997
- Verlag: Salaam Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 412 S.
- Masse: H22.1 cm x B14.2 cm x D2.7 cm 505 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 505
Über den Autor
Mohammed Umar was born in Azare in Nigeria's Bauchi State. He studied journalism in Moscow (1991) and political economy in London (1995). Mohammed Umar served as a judge for the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2009 and he was the winner of the Muslim News Award for Excellence in Arts in 2010. His first novel Amina has been translated into over thirty
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