Africa | Africa
May.10.2012
Poet Diana M. Raab travels to the heart of Africa with her family to experience the beauty and fascination of another world. During her safari, she observes the distress, the delight, and the dignity of the humans and animals who live there and parallels them to her own quest for health. She has...
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Sep.14.2011
Soft adventure. The sort of experience that goes beyond the typical tourist itinerary. There is no great physical challenge involved here. There is considerable food for the spirit. And the body. And on the windjammer, a rum swizzle at every turn. Not to worry, you're not driving.
I wrote...
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Aug.16.2011
Corlie Roux’s farm life in South Africa is not easy: the Transvaal is beautiful, but it is also a harsh place where the heat can be so intense that the very raindrops sizzle. When her beloved father dies, she is left with a mother who is as devoted to her sons as she is cruel to her daughter....
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Apr.13.2011
Heidi Holland and Adam Roberts asked fellow journalists and writers - South Africans and foreigners who have lived in Johannesburg - to write about the city. Out of this emerged FROM JOBURG TO JOZI, idiosyncratic reactions to Egoli, Jozi, the City of Gold. This collection of writings has a vibrancy...
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Mar.22.2011
In this new, expanded edition of her prize-winning collection, Midge Raymond explores the indelible imprint of home upon the self and the ways in which new frontiers both defy and confirm who we are. Including new stories as well as a reader’s guide, FORGETTING ENGLISH takes us around the world,...
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Mar.03.2011
Ada's Daughter recounts the life of Nigerian-born Jacqueline Maduneme who endured and overcame physical and emotional pain and suffering most anyone would fnd impossible to process or heal from. This intense account takes us from her early age to current day, and in her gift for storytelling,...
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Dec.30.2010
A glorious literary debut set in Africa that follows five women—two of them haunted by a shared tragedy—as their lives intersect in unexpected and sometimes explosive ways.
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Nov.09.2010
A group of missionaries perform a miracle in a small Zambian village -- but the mother of one of the missionaries claims that she can prove it's all a hoax.
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Sep.08.2010
Kumani, a mother lioness is not satisfied with her living arrangement. Unlike the other lioness in her pride, she feels that living in the wild with all of it's dangers is not fit for her and her cubs, for she is a queen and wants to live like one. She decides to take her cubs and leave the pride....
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Sep.08.2010
Kumani, a mother lioness is not satisfied with her living arrangement. Unlike the other lioness in her pride, she feels that living in the wild with all of it's dangers is not fit for her and her cubs, for she is a queen and wants to live like one. She decides to take her cubs and leave the pride....
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