The Dark Child: The Autobiography of an African Boy

from Lukerik

The 1959 British edition is something of a record of social change. According to the copyright page it was first published in English as The Dark Child, avoiding an exact translation of the French ...

from banjo123

Originally published in 1954, and written in French, this is a memoir of the author's childhood in the village of Koroussa, in French Guinea. Laye was a cherished child and his memories are sweet a...

from EadieB

This was a fascinating memoir of the author's youth growing up in the village of Koroussa, French Guinea. It shows the simple life of a dark child living in the great plain of Guinea. It is a very ...

from spiralsheep

The African Child, aka The Dark Child, by Camara Laye, first published in French in 1954, is an autobiographical recollection of the author's childhood in a Malinke family in Guinea (then French Gu...

from AndrewBlackman

This is a fairly short and simple autobiographical account of a boy growing up in Guinea in the 1930s and 40s. Camara Laye wrote it in 1954 while studying in France, and you can feel the nostalgia ...