Africa My Passion

Author(s): Corinne Hofmann

Location(s): Nairobi, Namibia

Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs

Era(s): Modern

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In a compelling personal pilgrimage, Corinne Hofmann, author of the global bestseller The White Masai, delves into the slums of Nairobi to uncover the heart-warming and heart-breaking stories of unforgettable people and places, then treks 500 miles across the Namibian desert to discover the lives of the nomadic Himba people. Joined by her half-Kenyan daughter, Napirai, they travel to Nairobi together for the first time to discover Napirai s roots and finally meet her father and half-siblings. Africa, My Passion is a poignant, touching and exciting story about one woman’s love affair with a unique man, which led to a lifelong obsession with Africa. Moving, vividly recounted, eye-opening and, above all, filled with passionate hope and unparalleled detail, this is an extraordinary sequel to a bestselling series of memoirs.

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I read her book The White Masai and TripFiction reviewed it here – it was on the strength of that review that I picked up this book, just to see where the author could go...

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Memoir set in Namibia and Kenya (“a memoir of tremendous courage or tremendous naivety?”)

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This book is a sequel to a sequel to a sequel. The original, written almost 30 years ago, was called “The White Masai” and told the story of the author, a woman of either tremendous courage or tremendous naivety depending...