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1706. The Dutch West India Company donates an African child to the Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel. The little slave soon impresses his patrons with his extraordinary intelligence. Sponsored by them, the young African studies philosophy, medicine and law and finally receives doctorate degrees at the Universities of Wittenberg and Halle. Lecturing in Halle and Jena, he becomes one of the most articulate political philosophers of his time in the German-speaking world. Dr. Anton Wilhelm Amo’s good fortunes end when scientists “discover” black people as the long-sought missing link between man and beast. When he then falls in love with a white woman, he is made an object of public ridicule. What happens after that is part of the dramatic reconstruction of a true life story highlighting the fundamental dilemma that has accompanied African immigrants in the white world ever since Prince Henry The Navigator’s men penetrated the shroud surrounding Africa on the eve of the Age of Discoveries.

Author

Jojo Cobbinah

Publisher

pmv Peter Meyer Verlag, Germany

Published

2015

Language

EN