Africa Reading Challenge

[snurri]

Yup, still doing this. I had to track down a couple more books to add to the ones I had around; I picked up the Hari and the Halperin based on mentions in other people's lists. Here's mine:

Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali by D.T. Niane, trans. G.D. Pickett

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur by Daoud Hari

I Laugh So I Won't Cry: Kenya's Women Tell the Stories of Their Lives by Helena Halperin

The Heart of the Ngoni: Heroes of the African Kingdom of Segu by Harold Courlander and Ousmane Seko

Wizard of the Crow by Ngugi Wa'Thiong'O

I'll post about each book as I finish it.

Comments

not doing the full challenge

[rsheslin.livejournal.com]

Cool stuff! I really liked Washing of the Spears (although I admit to skimming over some of the nitty gritty -- the thing was about a gazillion pages long), but that's because I've been pretty South African/Zulu-centric in my interests (comes from idolizing Johnny Clegg.)

Of course, I've recently picked up Alexander McCall Smith's The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency books, so we'll see if I move northward.