Comments on: HELP! I am Joining the African Reading Challenge. http://projectdiaspora.org/2008/02/19/help-i-am-joining-the-african-reading-challenge/ Motivate. Engage. Mobilize. Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:58:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: tracy1314 http://projectdiaspora.org/2008/02/19/help-i-am-joining-the-african-reading-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-56 tracy1314 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:02:11 +0000 http://projectdiaspora.org/beta/2008/02/19/help-i-am-joining-the-african-reading-challenge/#comment-56 Ok, there is the help you KNOW you need and the help you did not even know you needed. THANK YOU all for the help. There is nothing worse than getting excited about a book and having it let you down. Sadly three of my non-fiction choices seem to have fallen into that unfortunate category. Grumble, grumble... Olmoti8 & Dave: Half Yellow Sun it is! Number 2 on my fiction list YAY! Tumwijuke: Thanks for the online source! That should help ALOT. I will stay away from New News from Africa on your rec. I was afraid it might be something like that, but was hoping for the best. Sigh. Dave: Great review on The Trouble with Africa. Maybe I will do White Man's Burden or The Bottom Billion instead? Don't Lets Go to the Dog's tonight, and We Regret to Inform you came up in my searches as well... I'm going to add those to the list as well. Humm... will need to post a revised list later. I'll be checking your blog too Otim. Sadly I must get dressed and go to work now. Ok, there is the help you KNOW you need and the help you did not even know you needed. THANK YOU all for the help. There is nothing worse than getting excited about a book and having it let you down. Sadly three of my non-fiction choices seem to have fallen into that unfortunate category. Grumble, grumble…

Olmoti8 & Dave: Half Yellow Sun it is! Number 2 on my fiction list YAY!

Tumwijuke: Thanks for the online source! That should help ALOT. I will stay away from New News from Africa on your rec. I was afraid it might be something like that, but was hoping for the best. Sigh.

Dave: Great review on The Trouble with Africa. Maybe I will do White Man’s Burden or The Bottom Billion instead? Don’t Lets Go to the Dog’s tonight, and We Regret to Inform you came up in my searches as well… I’m going to add those to the list as well.

Humm… will need to post a revised list later. I’ll be checking your blog too Otim. Sadly I must get dressed and go to work now.

]]> By: dave http://projectdiaspora.org/2008/02/19/help-i-am-joining-the-african-reading-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-55 dave Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:06:27 +0000 http://projectdiaspora.org/beta/2008/02/19/help-i-am-joining-the-african-reading-challenge/#comment-55 I read The Trouble with Africa and was not impressed (here were my thoughts: http://www.amazon.com/review/R1VJO04WXNMUMS/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm). I also started Africa Unchained and couldn't get through the writer's style; just personal preference. Two excellent and readable nonfiction books are King Leopold's Ghost and We Regret to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families. my favorite memoir out of africa is alexandra fuller's don't let's go to the dogs tonight (then Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe), although mandela's long walk to freedom is amazing even if you're familiar with mandela. and for fiction, a personal favorite is Half of a Yellow Sun by adichie, which tells a powerful story with the backdrop of Nigeria's Biafran war in the 1960s. I read The Trouble with Africa and was not impressed (here were my thoughts: http://www.amazon.com/review/R1VJO04WXNMUMS/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm). I also started Africa Unchained and couldn’t get through the writer’s style; just personal preference. Two excellent and readable nonfiction books are King Leopold’s Ghost and We Regret to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families.

my favorite memoir out of africa is alexandra fuller’s don’t let’s go to the dogs tonight (then Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe), although mandela’s long walk to freedom is amazing even if you’re familiar with mandela.

and for fiction, a personal favorite is Half of a Yellow Sun by adichie, which tells a powerful story with the backdrop of Nigeria’s Biafran war in the 1960s.

]]> By: tumwijuke http://projectdiaspora.org/2008/02/19/help-i-am-joining-the-african-reading-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-54 tumwijuke Wed, 20 Feb 2008 06:57:22 +0000 http://projectdiaspora.org/beta/2008/02/19/help-i-am-joining-the-african-reading-challenge/#comment-54 Stay away from "New News Out of Africa", I implore you. It is a well intentioned book that hits way off the mark. In Hunter-Gault's world the standard of any interesting policy on Africa is set by South Africa. It is an incomplete blah read. Stay away. Some of the books I have sourced for the Africa Reading Challenge I have bought from African Book Center.com. They have a good selection of books from all over the continent. I'm expecting my purchases to come in this week. Welcome to the fun! Stay away from “New News Out of Africa”, I implore you. It is a well intentioned book that hits way off the mark. In Hunter-Gault’s world the standard of any interesting policy on Africa is set by South Africa. It is an incomplete blah read. Stay away.

Some of the books I have sourced for the Africa Reading Challenge I have bought from African Book Center.com. They have a good selection of books from all over the continent. I’m expecting my purchases to come in this week.

Welcome to the fun!

]]> By: Otim Michael http://projectdiaspora.org/2008/02/19/help-i-am-joining-the-african-reading-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-53 Otim Michael Wed, 20 Feb 2008 06:20:09 +0000 http://projectdiaspora.org/beta/2008/02/19/help-i-am-joining-the-african-reading-challenge/#comment-53 Check out some of the recommended books on my website. http://uncleiggy.spaces.live.com/ Check out some of the recommended books on my website.
http://uncleiggy.spaces.live.com/

]]> By: olmoti8 http://projectdiaspora.org/2008/02/19/help-i-am-joining-the-african-reading-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-52 olmoti8 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:52:55 +0000 http://projectdiaspora.org/beta/2008/02/19/help-i-am-joining-the-african-reading-challenge/#comment-52 I'm currently reading "Half of a yellow sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi, I absolutely love it! Check it out here: http://www.halfofayellowsun.com/index.php I’m currently reading “Half of a yellow sun” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi, I absolutely love it! Check it out here: http://www.halfofayellowsun.com/index.php

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