{"product_id":"my-first-coup-d-9781408832684","title":"My First Coup D","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMy First Coup D\u003c\/strong\u003e by John Dramani Mahama. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781408832684.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMy First Coup DEtat chronicles the coming-of-age of John Dramani Mahama in Ghana during the dismal post-independence lost decades of Africa. He was seven years old when rumours of a coup reached his boarding school in Accra. His father, a minister of state, was suddenly missing, then imprisoned for more than a year. My First Coup DEtat offers a look at the country that has long been considered Africas success story. This is a one-of-a-kind book: Mahamas is a rare literary voice from a political leader, and his stories work on many levels - as fables, as history, as cultural and political analysis, and, of course, as the memoir of a young man who, unbeknownst to him or anyone else, would grow up to be vice president of his nation. Though non-fiction, these are stories that rise above their specific settings and transport the reader - much like the fiction of Isaac Bashevis Singer and Nadine Gordimer - into a world all their own, one which straddles a time lost and explores the universal human emotions of love, fear, faith, despair, loss, longing, and hope despite all else.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44944912908341,"sku":"ByrdShop_1408832682","price":227.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781408832684_70c1438e-c737-4b59-a518-b41ed8effae7.jpg?v=1778883313","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/my-first-coup-d-9781408832684","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}