Road to Ghana

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Road to Ghana is the acclaimed 1960 autobiography by Alfred Hutchinson. It chronicles his escape from Johannesburg, South Africa, to the United Kingdom, via East Africa and Ghana. Hutchinson, a writer and teacher, was imprisoned for opposing apartheid and charged with high treason. The book is noted for its simple yet moving narrative of personal humiliations as a Black man in South Africa and his subsequent flight from oppression. Hutchinson also wrote a play and radio dramas, but Road to Ghana is considered his most significant work.1

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His autobiography, Road to Ghana (1960), was highly acclaimed and translated into several languages. It tells of his escape from Johannesburg (via East Africa and Ghana) to the United Kingdom after he had been imprisoned in 1952 and charged with high treason in 1956 for opposing apartheid.
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His autobiography, Road to Ghana (1960), was highly acclaimed and translated into several languages. It tells of his escape from Johannesburg (via East Africa and Ghana) to the United Kingdom after he had been imprisoned in 1952 and charged with high treason in 1956 for opposing apartheid.
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