Mixed Identity : LoBagola, the Black-Jewish African Prince
Pseudo-Bata Kindai Amgoza ibn LoBagola, An African savage’s own story (New York, 1930)
An African savage’s own story chronicles the adventures of LoBagola, a self-proclaimed “Black-Jewish Prince,” as he traveled from his pretended “African birth place” to Great Britain and America.
LoBagola was, in truth, the alter ego of the Baltimore-born African-American, Joseph Howard Lee, who grew up in a life of poverty and deep racial discrimination. In response, Lee fabricated much of this autobiography, initially published as authentic by the leading New York publishing house of Knopf.
