Tchicaya missamou biography books

In an exciting contemporary immigration story, Missamou celebrates the shining perfection of America, where he has found a home as a marine leader. Always he remembers growing up in Brazzaville, in the Republic of Congo, where he witnessed and participated in unspeakable atrocities as a child soldier, until he escaped at 19 and traveled first to Europe and then, at last, to the U.S.

After enlistment in the marines, he sailed through boot camp in California, graduating at the top of the class. The narrative weaves together past and present, Missamou’s memories of home and of leaving, and then his service in Iraq and as an American marine in Brazzaville in 2004.

FROM POVERTY TO WEALTH, FROM AFRICA TO AMERICA, AND FROM CHILD SOLDIER TO U.S. MARINEBorn into the Congolese wilderness, Tchicaya Missamou became a child soldier at age

FROM POVERTY TO WEALTH, FROM AFRICA TO AMERICA, AND FROM CHILD SOLDIER TO U.S. MARINEBorn into the Congolese wilderness, Tchicaya Missamou became a child soldier at age

Books by Tchicaya Missamou.

Tchicaya Missamou was born and raised in Brazzaville, Congo.

In the Shadow of Freedom is the uplifting story of one man's quest to achieve the American Dream.

Born into the Congolese wilderness, Tchicaya Missamou became a child soldier at age As a horrific civil war loomed across his country, Tchicaya began using.

The fast and bloody action unfurls from the perspective of both victim and victor: Look your enemy in the eye when you kill him. That celebration of the glory of war in the pursuit of freedom does not really match with the many inspirational quotes interspersed in the text from Mandela, King, and Obama.

But the patriotic messag