Book description
A South-African-born journalist who was exiled from her home in Kenya describes her return to the continent of Africa and her experiences dodging bullets in Ethiopia, dining with aristocracy in Nairobi, and seeing the victims of famine. 15,000 first printing.
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1 author picked Nomad as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
African exploration has a rich history of intrepid women travelers (I think particularly of Mary Kingsley, who had once ascended Mount Cameroon in a day, Victorian petticoats notwithstanding. Kingsley finally died of typhoid in South Africa while she was administering to Boer prisoners of war, but before that, she made many an expedition among the Fang of Gabon and, as she put it, âdanced many a wild dance with the wild river.â) Mary Anne Fitzgerald is the best modern example. Jailed by the dictatorship of Kenyaâs Daniel Arap Moi and subsequently expelled, she then reported from hotspots all over Africa,âŠ
From Marq's list on The best books illustrating the richness and complexity of African cultures.
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