An African Abroad
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An African Abroad

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When he’s not breaking through security to shake the hands of Nikita Khrushchev, he is crashing his scooter through a border between Jordan and Israel in the then partitioned Jerusalem, amidst a hail of gunfire, escaping an assassination attempt in Jordan, or dodging the bullets of eager security agents around the Duke of Edinburgh in Sydney. When he’s not trying ‘African ju-ju’ on pretty Russian girls, he’s enjoying a tense audience with Golda Meir in Israel and hobnobbing with Fúnmiláyọ̀ Ransome-Kútì in Moscow. One-man daredevil-traveller, Mashood Ọlábísí Àjàlá saw and did it all, and lived to tell the tale. Now back in print, for the first time since 1963, here are the travel tales of his trip around Europe, the Middle East, and Australia as told by the author himself, with a preface by Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún and a foreword by Joane Àjàlá.

This fully annotated edition of “An African Abroad” includes:

  • Explanations of historical context, literary comments, and background analyses
  • Foreword by Joan Ajala, with whom the author had three children, and who edited the original manuscript of “An African Abroad”.
  • An abridged biography of the author.

When he’s not breaking through security to shake the hands of Nikita Khrushchev, he is crashing his scooter through a border between Jordan and Israel in the then partitioned Jerusalem, amidst a hail of gunfire, escaping an assassination attempt in Jordan, or dodging the bullets of eager security agents around the Duke of Edinburgh in Sydney. When he’s not trying ‘African ju-ju’ on pretty Russian girls, he’s enjoying a tense audience with Golda Meir in Israel and hobnobbing with Fúnmiláyọ̀ Ransome-Kútì in Moscow. One-man daredevil-traveller, Mashood Ọlábísí Àjàlá saw and did it all, and lived to tell the tale. Now back in print, for the first time since 1963, here are the travel tales of his trip around Europe, the Middle East, and Australia as told by the author himself, with a preface by Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún and a foreword by Joane Àjàlá.

This fully annotated edition of “An African Abroad” includes:

  • Explanations of historical context, literary comments, and background analyses
  • Foreword by Joan Ajala, with whom the author had three children, and who edited the original manuscript of “An African Abroad”.
  • An abridged biography of the author.