recommended reading
Don't Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight
by Alexandra Fuller
This gripping tale of Alexandra Fuller’s childhood in Malawi, Rhodesia and Zambia is raw, gritty and heartwrenching. As a white African, she details her family’s journey as farmers in inhospitable terrain, with changing and challenging contexts constantly unfolding.
28 Stories of AIDS in Africa
by Stephanie Nolen, Africa Correspondent for "The Globe and Mail"
I looked at AIDS in Africa for a long time before I understood what I was seeing. That moment came on the shady porch of a small mud-brick house in a village called Nkhotakota in Malawi, early in 2002. The house belonged to Lillian Chandawili. She was thirty-five years old, and I met her through the local AIDS organization. We sat in the softening heat of the late afternoon and she told me how she was raising her five children on her own–her husband was gone. She confided that she was plagued by diarrhea and a racking cough; some days she barely had the strength to lift a hoe, but her little plot of land was the only source of food for her family.
A Long Way Gone:
Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Ishmael Beah
A riveting memoir, destined to become an international best-seller, which recounts a remarkable story of war, survival and redemption—the rest ever written by a former child soldier.
Race Against Time
by
Stephen Lewis. Published
October 2005 by Anansi
Press.
Stephen Lewis speaks out jadedly but
vehemently against international development
disgraces perpetuated by
United States administrations past and
present, the International Financial
Institutions (including the World
Bank and IMF along with the African
Development Bank and other regional
financial bodies), all G8 leaders, ‘Live
8’ organizer Bob Geldof and his entourage
of rock stars, the United Nations
(his employer of over twenty years),
and the wider ‘international community.’
"50
Facts That Should Change the World"
by Jessica Williams
"Jessica Williams reminds us that
our world is deeply interconnected - and
that civilisation is a fragile concept."
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"The
Collapse of Globalism and the Reinvention of the World"
by John Ralston Saul
"Mango
Elephants in the Sun: How Life in an African
Village Let Me Be in My Skin"
by Susana
Herrera
An easy-to-read and insightful book about
the experiences of a young American woman
living in Camaroon.
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