5/29/2023 0 Comments Run For It by Marcelo d'Salete![]() Beah’s memoir about Sierra Leone features people constantly on the run from the violent forces that erupt in their lives and the warlords and masters that would enslave them in recent times. ![]() The Bantu Africans who populate D’Salete’s visually rich and beautifully textured stories are slaves living in Brazil roughly between 1500-1800 and come from the Congo-Angola regions of Africa. At first, I didn’t think about the similarities but when I re-read the foreword and the introduction to D’Salete’s book, some common themes emerged. ![]() I found myself reading Marcelo D’Salete‘s Run For It: Stories of Slaves Who Fought For Their Freedom(translated by Andrea Rosenberg and published by Fantagraphics) while concurrently reading Ishmael Beah’s memoir A Long Way Gone about being a child soldier in Sierra Leone during the nineties. ![]()
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