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Lonely Planet Africa -Travel Guide
Brief summary
Lonely Planet Africa is your passport to all the most relevant and up-to-date advice on what to see, what to skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Take a refreshing dip at Victoria Falls, explore the ancient pyramids of Egypt, or take a walking safari in South Luangwa National Park; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Africa and begin your journey now!
Inside Lonely Planet's Africa Travel Guide:
1. Colour maps and images throughout
2. Highlights and itineraries show you the simplest way to tailor your trip to your own personal needs and interests
3. Insider tips save you time and money, and help you get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots
4. Essential info at your fingertips - including hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, and prices
5. Honest reviews for all budgets - including eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, and hidden gems that most guidebooks miss
6. Cultural insights give you a richer and more rewarding travel experience - including history, local customs, music and wildlife
7. Over 235 maps
8. Useful features - including Month by Month (annual festival calendar), Itineraries (suggested routes that maximise your time and money), and Planning Safaris
9. Coverage of Botswana, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Egypt, the Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and more
The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Africa, our most comprehensive guide to Africa, is perfect for those planning to both explore the top sights and take the road less travelled.
• Looking for just a few of the destinations included in this guide? Check out the relevant Lonely Planet Country Guides or Regional Guides, such as Lonely Planet Morocco or Lonely Planet Southern Africa.
ISBN:9781741798968
Author:Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet Zambia & Malawi-Tr...
Brief summary
Take Lonely Planet's first edition of Zambia & Malawi on your travels and you'll be wildlife spotting on safari in unspoilt national parks; gazing at the thundering might of Victoria Falls; watching Kuomboka, one of the last great Southern African ceremonies; or relaxing beachside at Nkhata Bay. Why not do it all?
Lonely Planet guides are written by experts who get to the heart of every destination they visit. This brand new edition is packed with accurate, practical and honest advice, designed to give you the information you need to make the most of your trip.
In This Guide:
1. Detailed itineraries take you from Zambia's magnificent wildlife to Malawi's stunning lakes
2. Ecofriendly tips to help you make your travels green
3. Color chapter on wildlife, wild places and where to chill out
ISBN:9781741794335
Author:Alan Murphy and Nana Luckham
Lonely Planet Tanzania -Travel Guide ...
Lonely Planet Tanzania is your passport to all the most relevant and up-to-date advice on what to see, what to skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Watch East Africa's greatest natural dramas play out on the Serengeti plains, learn about local Chagga culture, or wander through the narrow alleyways of Zanzibar; all with your trusted travel companion.
Get to the heart of Tanzania and begin your journey now!
Inside Lonely Planet Tanzania Travel Guide:
1. Colour maps and images throughout
2. Highlights and itineraries show you the simplest way to tailor your trip to your own personal needs and interests
3. Insider tips save you time and money and help you get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots
4. Essential info at your fingertips - including hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, and prices
5. Honest reviews for all budgets - including eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, and hidden gems that most guidebooks miss
6. Cultural insights give you a richer and more rewarding travel experience - including customs, history, religion, art, music, dance, politics, landscapes, wildlife, and cuisine
7. Over 46 local maps
8. Useful features - including Month-by-Month (annual festival calendar), Safaris, and Active Tanzania
9. Coverage of Dar es Salaam, Mt Kilimanjaro, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, the Zanzibar Archipelago, Stone Town, Lake Victoria, the Serengeti Plains, the Mahale Mountains, Katavi, Ruaha, and more
The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Tanzania, our most comprehensive guide to Tanzania, is perfect for those planning to both explore the top sights and take the road less travelled.
• Looking for more extensive coverage? Check out Lonely Planet's East Africa guide for a comprehensive look at all the region has to offer.
Lonely Planet Kenya -Travel Guide by ...
Lonely Planet Kenya is your passport to all the most relevant and up-to-date advice on what to see, what to skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Watch the wildebeest migrate across the Mara's plains, get close to the elephants in front of Mount Kilimanjaro, or wander the Lamu backstreets; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Kenya and begin your journey now!
Inside Lonely Planet Kenya Travel Guide:
1. Colour maps and images throughout
2. Highlights and itineraries show you the simplest way to tailor your trip to your own personal needs and interests
3. Insider tips save you time and money and help you get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots
4. Essential info at your fingertips - including hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, and prices
5. Honest reviews for all budget - including eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, and hidden gems that most guidebooks miss
6. Cultural insights give you a richer and more rewarding travel experience - including customs, history, art, literature, cinema, politics, landscapes, wildlife, and cuisine
7. Over 60 local maps
8. Useful features - including Month-by-Month (annual festival calendar), Walking Tours, or Travel with Children
9. Coverage of Nairobi, Mombasa, Rift Valley, the Central Highlands, Masai Mara, Lake Victoria, Isiolo, Maralal, Lamu, Marich, Mt Kenya, Aberdares, Southern Kenya, and more
The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Kenya, our most comprehensive guide to Kenya, is perfect for those planning to both explore the top sights and take the road less travelled.
• Looking for more extensive coverage? Check out Lonely Planet's East Africa guide for a comprehensive look at all the region has to offer.
Obama Senior A Dream Fulfilled
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On January 20, 2009, Barack Hussein Obama made history as the first African-American president of the United States of America since its founding in 1776. Around the world, people celebrated his election as if he were one of their own and held exceedingly high expectations of his presidency.
When, as senator of Illinois, he visited his father's village in Nyang'oma K'Ogelo in Kenya, he was struck by the ecstatic reception that the people accorded him. He was deeply touched by the abject poverty and fullness of spirit of the people. The level of need and the challenges that he witnessed in the poor neighborhoods of Chicago in the US, in Indonesia and Kenya may have significantly contributed to his spirited drive to the White House.
In this book, the author re-traces the life of Barack Obama Senior and how his character, vision and intellect influenced his son's drive to the most powerful office in the land. In so doing, the author revisits the events in pre- and post-colonial Kenya and how these, too, had a bearing on the life of Obama Senior.
The book also relates the history of his people - the Luo - from their original settlements along the Nile in Egypt and the Sudan to their present homelands in East Africa and the Great Lakes region. It details the often tragic and ultimately triumphant struggle of a people in pursuit of a just, peaceful and progressive society.
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ISBN:9789966560391
Author:Fredrick Donde
Death Trap
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Edgar, a son of Kenya's Commissioner of Police, reportedly goes missing along with a fellow student, Monica, while on a school camping trip and triggers a heart-chilling helicopter rescue operation in the dry and rocky terrain neighboring Lake Baringo.
Had the students been kidnapped in the remote and desolate country? The paparazzi, cattle rustlers, political intrigues and an encounter with a deadly hyena are part of the unfolding drama that takes the reader through a gripping suspense.
ISBN:9966498524
Author:Bill Ruto
Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
In a far future, post-nuclear-holocaust Africa, genocide plagues one region. The aggressors, the Nuru, have decided to follow the Great Book and exterminate the Okeke. But when the only surviving member of a slain Okeke village is brutally raped, she manages to escape, wandering farther into the desert.
She gives birth to a baby girl with hair and skin the color of sand and instinctively knows that her daughter is different. She names her daughter Onyesonwu, which means "Who Fears Death?" in an ancient African tongue.
Reared under the tutelage of a mysterious and traditional shaman, Onyesonwu discovers her magical destiny – to end the genocide of her people. The journey to fulfill her destiny will force her to grapple with nature, tradition, history, true love, the spiritual mysteries of her culture – and eventually death itself.
My Life in Prison by John Kiriamiti
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This is a thriller novel set in Kenya, Nairobi. It rolls through a forest of crime of a gang led by John Kiriamiti alias Jack Zollo.
Their main set is robbery, with violence. Jack the wanted criminal is in love with an innocent girl, Milly- who lives in a fool’s paradise not knowing exactly what her handsome man does for a living.
Jack must harbor secrets, nurture his love and yet evade the deadly police at the same time. Will he continue being lucky?
I will go the Distance
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I will go the Distance: The story of a "lost" Sudanese boy of the sixties
The story of a "lost" Sudanese boy of the sixties with a Forward by Dr Francis Mading Deng.Before the "Lost Boys" of the 1990s there were the refugee children from Southern Sudan in the 1960s.
Jacob Akol was one of them, and he writes of his experiences, uprooted by war, separated from his family, wandering with his companions through Africa… to Ireland.
ISBN:9789966080615
Author:Jacob J. Akol
Beyond White Mischief
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Beyond White Mischief: Memoirs of a Tea Planter's Wife
When Sheila Ward went off to RADA to train as an actress in the early 1950s, she had no idea of the stormy path her life would take. After a short career as an actress in rep, with all the joys of juggling different roles and the comic possibilities of living in grim digs on very little money, she met and married a tea planter, and went off to live in Africa.
Through Sheila's diaries, life in Africa springs into sharp relief as she learns to live with snakes, bugs and recalcitrant servants. Sheila and her husband have four children and gradually adapt to a very different way of life. She meets the author Gerald Durrell, and Joy and George Adamson of Elsa the lioness fame, entertains fellow ex-pats and learns to love the unique terrain of Kenya’s hills.
But this seemingly charmed life is marred by a dreadful family tragedy, and a growing mistrust between Sheila and her husband. Family life begins to break down, and Sheila has to face the loneliness and heartbreak of living in a foreign country in an empty marriage.
With devastating honesty Sheila Ward's diaries document these difficult years, and her determination to build a new life for herself and face the future with impressive optimism.
ISBN:9781846246166
Author:Sheila Ward
In Borrowed Light
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Fourteen years after independence, the enduring childhood friendship of three women has carried them through times of violence and loss in Kenya, their chosen homeland. Hannah Olsen and her husband Lars own Langani Farm and Safari Lodge where they struggle to protect their wildlife and land from poachers and corrupt officials—but the developing relationship between their daughter and a young African boy with a terrifying legacy tests the strength of their family.
Sarah Singh, wildlife researcher and renowned photographer, is married to an Indian journalist, however, their inability to have children puts Sarah's relationship with her husband and his family under increasing pressure.
Camilla Broughton Smith, international model and fashion designer, has given up a dazzling career to work with the charismatic safari guide Anthony Chapman, who has been disabled in a tragic accident—yet his bitterness and fear of commitment threaten to shatter her dreams. Set in the magnificent but unpredictable wilds of Kenya, this is a story of courage and fortitude, of loyalty and murderous deceit, of friendship and betrayal, and redeeming sacrifice.
ISBN:9780099520634
Author:Barbara Keating and Stephanie Keating
The Grass is Singing
Brief summary
Set in South Africa under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is both a riveting chronicle of human disintegration and a beautifully understated social critique.
Mary Turner is a self-confident, independent young woman who becomes the depressed, frustrated wife of an ineffectual, unsuccessful farmer. Little by little the ennui of years on the farm work their slow poison, and Mary's despair progresses until the fateful arrival of an enigmatic and virile black servant, Moses.
Locked in anguish, Mary and Moses -- master and slave -- are trapped in a web of mounting attraction and repulsion. Their psychic tension explodes in an electrifying scene that ends this disturbing tale of racial strife in colonial South Africa.
The Grass Is Singing blends Lessing's imaginative vision with her own vividly remembered early childhood to recreate the quiet horror of a woman's struggle against a ruthless fate.
ISBN:9780002257558
Author:Doris Lessing
The Gonjon Pin and Other Stories
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The Caine Prize for African Writing is Africa's leading literary prize. For fifteen years it has supported and promoted contemporary African writing. Keeping true to its motto, "Africa will always bring something new," the prize has helped launch the literary careers of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Segun Afolabi, Leila Aboulela, Brian Chikwava, EC Osondu Henrietta Rose-Innes, Binyavanga Wainaina, and many others.
The 2014 collection includes the five shortlisted stories and the stories written at the Caine Prize Writers' Workshop. It will be published to coincide with the announcement of the award in July 2014.
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ISBN:9781780261744
Author:The Caine Prize for African Writing
Power of Corruption
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Hodder African Readers are high-interest books designed to appeal to both boys and girls. They are highly motivating adventure and action stories which attract the reader's attention and hold it through the story. Together these titles form a strong, vibrant and attractive supplementary reader’s series for the African schools.
The Power of Corruption: When a young boy is brutally killed by a man who is deaf and dumb, the subsequent court trial appears to be an open and shut case until the murderer insists that he 'heard' the boy stealing on his farm. But when the judge and the journalists covering the case start to act in a most peculiar fashion, it soon becomes clear to Pius Shale and his attractive assistant, Bisi, that more sinister forces are at work.
Before long the two special agents themselves are enmeshed in a sinister web of corruption masterminded by a man bent on overthrowing the legitimate government of the day
ISBN:9789966345240
Author:Dan Fulani
Happiness Like Water
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Here are Nigerian women at home and transplanted to the United States, building lives out of longing and hope, faith and doubt, the struggle to stay and the mandate to leave, the burden and strength of love. Here are characters faced with dangerous decisions, children slick with oil from the river, a woman in love with another despite the penalties.
Here is a world marked by electricity outages, lush landscapes, and folktales, buses that break down and never start up again. Here is a portrait of Nigerians that is surprising, shocking, heartrending, loving, and across social strata, dealing in every kind of change. Here are stories filled with language to make your eyes pause and your throat catch.
Happiness, Like Water introduces a true talent, a young writer with a beautiful heart and a capacious imagination.
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ISBN:9780544003453
Author:Chinelo Okparanta
The Hairdresser of Harare by Tendai H...
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Voted an Observer Top Ten Contemporary African Book 2012 and nominated for The Guardian's Not the Booker Prize 2011. Vimbai is the star hairdresser of her salon, the smartest in Harare, Zimbabwe, until the enigmatic Dumisani appears.
Losing many of her best customers to this good-looking, smooth-talking young man, Vimbai fears for her job, vital if she's to provide for her young child. But in a remarkable reversal the two becomes allies, Dumi renting a room from Vimbai, then inviting her to a family wedding, where to her surprise, he introduces her to his rich parents as his 'girlfriend'.
Soon they are running their own Harare salon, attracting the wealthiest and most powerful clients in the city. But disaster is near, as Vimbai soon uncovers Dumi's secret, a discovery that will result in brutality and tragedy, testing their relationship to the very limit. The Hairdresser of Harare is a stylish, funny and sophisticated first-hand account of life today in Zimbabwe's capital city, confounding stereotypes and challenging injustice with equal fearlessness.
This is an upbeat, charming, but at times heart breaking, story of friendship, prejudice and forgiveness from the heart of contemporary Africa.
Ethnicity and Democracy in Africa
Brief summary
The politics of identity and ethnicity will remain a fundamental characteristic of African modernity. For this reason, historians and anthropologists have joined political scientists in a discussion about the ways in which democracy can develop in multicultural societies.
In Ethnicity and Democracy in Africa, the contributors address why ethnicity represents a political problem, how the problem manifests itself, and which institutional models offer ways of ameliorating the challenges that ethnicity poses to democratic nation-building.
ISBN:9780821415702
Author:Bruce Berman, Dickson Eyoh and Will Kymlicka
The Kingdon Field Guide to African Ma...
Brief summary
This is a complete guide to the mammal fauna of Africa. Covering all known species (around 460), this guide will enable identification of all land mammals likely to be seen anywhere in Africa.
Detailed accounts, with colour illustrations, are provided for most species, but some complex small mammal groups are summarized by general.
The colour illustrations show both sexes in sexually dimorphic species, and there are also a wealth of line drawings illustrating typical behaviours, the function of camouflaged or disruptive markings and the details of interspecific variation among closely allied species. Distribution maps show the ranges of most species covered.
Field Guide to African Wildlife By Pe...
The first and only field guide to offer comprehensive coverage of the African continent, this guide sends the reader on a virtual safari.
All the birds, mammals, reptiles, and insects are brought to life, and the parks and reserves for which the continent is famous are described in thorough detail.
This guide is packed with 577 stunning color photographs of African habitats and animals, and provides a wealth of information on more than 850 species compiled by veteran safari leaders and experts in African wildlife.
Africa A Biography of the Continent
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In 1978, paleontologists in East Africa discovered the earliest evidence of our divergence from the apes: three pre-human footprints, striding away from a volcano, were preserved in the petrified surface of a mudpan over three million years ago.
Out of Africa, the world's most ancient and stable landmass, Homo sapiens dispersed across the globe. And yet the continent that gave birth to human history has long been woefully misunderstood and mistreated by the rest of the world.
In a book as splendid in its wealth of information as it is breathtaking in scope, British writer and photojournalist John Reader brings to light Africa's geology and evolution, the majestic array of its landforms and environments, the rich diversity of its peoples and their ways of life, the devastating legacies of slavery and colonialism as well as recent political troubles and triumphs. Written in simple, elegant prose and illustrated with Reader's own photographs, Africa: A Biography of the Continent is an unforgettable book that will delight the general reader and expert alike.
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ISBN:9780679738695
Author:John Reader
