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RESOURCES
Suggested Readings
General Africa
Africa, A Biography of the Continent by John Reader (History): A great introduction to Africa from
its ancient cultures up to modern times.
Faces of Africa, Thirty Years of Photography OR Passages: Photographs in Africa by Carol Beckwith
and Angela Fisher (Photography/Anthropology) Traveling throughout Africa from the Sahara to
Cape Horn, Beckwith and Fisher have produced decades of striking images.
Safari: A Chronicle of Adventure by Bartle Bull (History) In fascinating and often amusing detail,
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ox-driven wagons to the modern-day version in comfortable camps.
Eastern Africa: Kenya & Tanzania
Love, Life, and Elephants: An African Love Story by Daphne Sheldrick (Memoir) The lively and
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raise one in captivity from birth. The book recounts her experiences helping her husband to
create and run one of Kenya’s national parks and her role in raising orphaned elephants to
release back into the wild.
Crazy River: Exploration and Folly in East Africa by Richard Grant (Travel Narrative) Author Grant
risks his life to travel the relatively unexplored Malagarasi River from Tanzania into Burundi,
which he then follows up with a jaunt into Rwanda. At times adventurous, scary, and crazy.
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came to study zoology in the Serengeti in the 1960s, and he still works there today. This book
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It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle-Blower by Michela Wrong (History/Politics)
Journalist-turned-author Michela Wrong uses the dramatic true story of anti-corruption
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North of Southby Shiva Naipaul (Travel Narrative) In the 1970s Naipaul traveled to Kenya,
Tanzania, and Zambia. Through his travels, he tried to discover what the liberation and
revolution movements of the time meant to the ordinary people of Africa. A sharp book that
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Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (Biography/Memoir) The classic tale of a young woman who gives
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descriptions and love for the land and people have made this book an international favorite.
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