Nyabongo (Prince Akiki K.) The Story of an African Chief
£175
New York, Scribner’s, 1935.
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth with pictorial onlays. Dust-jacket, priced $3.
The first book published by Prince Akiki Nyabongo of Toro, a Ugandan prince and an author, one of the first Ugandan authors to publish in the English language. Nyabongo was the editor-in-chief of The African Magazine, and studied in the United States and the United Kingdom in the early to mid-20th century, writing about African and European cultures, focusing on the relationship and contrasts between them. This work is probably his most famous, reissued in 1936 under the title Africa Answers Back.
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VG+/VG, minor foxing to boards, contents clean, toning to pages, owner notes pasted into rear end papers, rough cut pages in a VG unclipped wrapper with shallow chipping to spine ends
Illustrations by Eleanor Maroney.
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