Black Gold Of The Sun: Searching For Home In England And Africa

'What does it feel like to be black? In part it means always being a stranger. Being black means standing both inside and outside society: seeing the world as white people do while reaching out to touch it as a black person.' Leaving his own home in London, Ekow Eshun sets out for Ghana, the home of his family, in search of his roots. Travelling from Accra to Cape Coast, to the Ashanti region and on into Ghana's far north, his journey intersects with other voyages including those of Louis Armstrong, W.E.B. Du Bois, his father and mother, his grandparents, and the many slaves who passed through and from this nation. Moving from present to past, from south to north, from hip-hop to Hegel, this is a dazzling book about one man's journey in search of himself ...