Africa - and I was 19

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In this book Leif Lorentzon tells of the journey he made 50 years ago, when 19 years old. He hitch-hiked alone through almost entire Africa. He kept a diary as company and this has enabled him to memorize and narrate this often adventures and strenuous travel, but also joyful. He met a lot of lovely people, both fellow globetrotters and locals in the many towns and villages he found himself. As Leif Lorentzon later came to study the continents literature, this has also made its way into the narrative. But chiefly it is an exciting story of hippie travelling through Africa!

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Leif Lorentzon
Leif Lorentzon, a Swedish retired teacher and literary scholar, living in Stockholm, here tells of when he 19 years old, alone hitch-hiked through Africa for a year. After that year he lived for two years in Kenya in the late 1970s. Back in Stockholm he began reading comparative literature and did his post-graduate research in African literature. He finished a PhD on the Ghanaian writer Ayi Kwei Armah in 1999, and later partook in both Swedish and international research projects and conferences, particularly in Africa. He has also published several scholarly papers in academic journals and was for long part of the editorial board of Karavan, a Swedish literary journal dedicated to literature outside of the West. After having retired from teaching and scholarly work he has here written of his year on the hippie-road in Africa.

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