Africa

Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years With a Midwife in Mali  by Kris Holloway (Author), John Bidwell (Contributor), Waveland Press, 2012.  Monique Dembele Peace Corps volunteer Kris Holloway talks about her time with Monique Dembele, a midwife in Mali. Besides helping with childbirth, Monique repaired skin tears from childbirth, helped women who were the victims of domestic violence, educated patients about the importance of clean water, and treated infectious diseases, suc

Bring Back Our Girls: The Untold Story of the Global Search for Nigeria's Missing Schoolgirls  by Joe Parkinson, Drew Hinshaw, Harper Perennial, 2022.

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood  by Trevor Noah, Doubleday Canada, 2016.

Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad by Michela Wrong, PublicAffairs, 2023. The Assassination of Paul Karegeya Paul Karegeya was assassinated in Room 905 of the Michelangelo Towers Hotel in Johannesburg, South Africa on December 31 of 2013. He had been raised in a Roman Catholic, Banyarwanda cattle-herding family. Karegeya had belonged to the Rwandan Patriotic Front, and managed taking gold, coltan and diamonds from the Democratic Re

When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa by Peter Godwin, Picador, 2007.

The Last Resort: A Memoir of Mischief and Mayhem on a Family Farm in Africa by Douglas Rogers, Crown, 2010.

Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival  by Dean King, Back Bay Books Reprint, Paperback, 2005.  Early 19th century American sailors had a problem near th4 Canary Islands, where they went off course and landed on the coast of Africa. They had a rough time in the Sahara desert, dealing with the heat, lack of water, and the indigenous people

Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival  by Ryszard Kapuściński, Back Bay Books Reprint, Paperback, 2005.  The author, a Polish reporter, was born in Pinsk in Belarus in 1930. This work describes he travels through several countries in Africa.

The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa  by Josh Swiller, Holt Paperbacks, 2007.  The author finds himself at cross purposes with an interesting fellow named Boniface. Hilarious!

Out Of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa  by Keith Richburg, Basic Books, 1997.  Washington Post Keith Richburg was a reporter for the Washington Post who covered Africa for 3 years in the 1990s. He reported from: Sudan, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda , Burundi , Tanzania, Zimbabwe, South Africa Problems with Governance:  the big man corruption tribalism honest African leaders are jailed or killed the casual disregard for human life Telling the Truth about Africa:  press

My Traitor's Heart: A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, and His Conscience  by Rian Malan, Grove Press, 2009.  The Boers of South Africa This memoir was written before the end of apartheid. The author’s ancestors were Boers, also called Afrikaners, descendants of the Dutch colonists of southern Africa. Boer stock was the most racist segment of South African society. The author describes how brutally his ancestors, the Boers, treated blacks. The Boers

It's Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle-Blower  by Michela Wrong, HarperCollins, 2009.  Reporter on Government Corruption The main topic of the book is the efforts of an honest man, journalist and government anti-corruption official named John Githongo to clean up corruption in the Kenyan government during the administration of president Mwai Kibaki, who was in office 2002-2013. Jomo Kenyatta Jomo Kenyatta was Kenya’s first president after independence (1963-1978)