Price: $39.95
Page Count: 300
Publication Date: November 2021
ISBN: 978-1-77258-356-4
Jesse O’Reilly-Conlin’s lucid book of memories recounts the story of his personal, creative, and geographical journeys. In Visiting Africa, O’Reilly-Conlin deftly weaves his life story with narratives of travel and mobility, chronicling his experiences of discovery, education, and redemption. Visiting Africa reflects on what it means to travel, but also, importantly, on issues of xenophobia and racism. This intensely expressive book is at times introspective, at other times tracing historical, political, and social contexts. After months of Covid-19 induced isolation and lockdown, O’Reilly-Conlin’s Visiting Africa is an urgent and thought-provoking reminder of the power of language to document travel and evoke cultural and human interaction.
-- Charlotte Beyer, Senior Lecturer in English Studies, University of Gloucestershire
Introduction: Snapshots of Africa
Chapter 1: Thinking of Africa
Chapter 2: In My Mother’s Office
Chapter 3: Three Weeks in Montreal
Chapter 4: Teaching English in South Korea
Chapter 5: In the University of Witwatersrand
Chapter 6: Lisbon, Mozambique, Lisbon
Chapter 7: South Africa
Chapter 8: Zimbabwe
Chapter 9: Tanzania
Chapter: 10 Ghana
Afterword: Rwanda
Jesse O’Reilly-Conlin works as an editor at Demeter Press, an Ontario-based publishing house, as well as a freelance editor. He has a bachelor degree in history and English, a MA in history (both from York University, Toronto), a MFA in creative nonfiction (University of King’s College, Halifax), and MA in refugee protection and forced migration studies (University of London. His writing has appeared in Cargo Lit Mag, Cold Noon: International Journal of Travel Writing and Travelling Cultures, and Folio Magazine. For Folio, his story “Istanbul Gone” won the journal’s 2018 Editor’s Prize for nonfiction. This is his first book.
