English First Edition
Two Continents and One Island
My Long and Winding Journey from the Tropics to the Tropicana
- Author
- Abel Ndambasha
- Publisher
- Fulton Books
- Publication year
- 2021
- Paperback ISBN
- 978-1-64952-500-0
- Digital ISBN
- 978-1-64952-501-7
Press / Media
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Project description
In brief.
Two Continents and One Island: My Long and Winding Journey from the Tropics to the Tropicana is Abel Ndambasha's memoir of growing up on Zambia's Copperbelt, studying metallurgical engineering in Cuba, and rebuilding life in the United States. It is a story of faith, education, contradiction, migration, and the ordinary people whose acts of grace make survival possible.
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About Abel Ndambasha.
Abel Ndambasha was raised in Kalulushi on Zambia's Copperbelt, studied metallurgical engineering in Cuba, and later earned his master's degree in mechanical engineering from Florida International University before building a professional career in the United States.
Publication information
English and Spanish editions.
Spanish Edition
Dos Continentes y Una Isla
Mi Largo e Intricado Camino Desde los Trópicos Hasta la Tropicana
- Author
- Abel Ndambasha
- Publisher
- Archway Publishing
- Publication date
- August 25, 2025
- Softcover ISBN
- 9781665782173
- E-book ISBN
- 9781665782180
- Page count
- 236
Conversation starters
Selected interview topics.
- Education as a bridge between visible circumstance and imagined possibility
- Growing up in Kalulushi and the culture of Zambia's Copperbelt
- Studying engineering in Cuba during a period of political contradiction
- Faith, migration, identity, and the cost of ambition
- The influence of Abel's mother and the people he calls human angels
- Adapting a deeply personal memoir into a six-part limited series
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