{"product_id":"red-winds-irma-upex-huggins-9781911587071","title":"Red Winds: A VSO in Tanzania","description":"\u003cp\u003eRed Winds is an account of Irma Upex-Huggins' time with the VSO in Tanzania, living and working in an environment of extreme poverty, and it charts her journey through the country and through illness and recovery from a serious accident. Red Winds is a combination of poetry and prose, letters from Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIrma was born in Antigua in the West Indies, finished school in Nevis and came to live in England. But as a black woman now coming from England to Tanzania she has a sense of dislocation, 'an uncomfortable sense of my 'not-belonging' when I feel that my 'Africanness' is still wandering in the Diaspora', when asked 'Kabila Gani?', meaning what is your Tribe, her reply is 'Sina'- I have none. She is marked as an Outsider by her lack of Swahili, and even by her hair, worn in a style of Maasai men.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIrma is called 'Mzungu', 'different', and she writes as an Outsider of the land and the people, mostly the people. Not having a common language, she watches people closely and with compassion of their lives and their deaths. Irma is a great storyteller and her poetry has a wonderful clarity. Irma has left her own river and finds, in this new river of Africa, 'fullness and beauty'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Irma Upex-Huggins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1911587072\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781911587071\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palewell Press Migrations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/09\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.27d","brand":"Irma Upex-Huggins","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48445858873599,"sku":"9781911587071","price":12.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_939d12a3-3cb9-4c43-addd-eb6b9b5b31fb.jpg?v=1777221110","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/red-winds-irma-upex-huggins-9781911587071","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}