Blogs in July 2020

Desert Burial 13th July 2020

American geologist Ty Campbell, tormented by the death of his murdered wife, and Lila, an aid worker, must sign a Faustian pact with Timbuktu Earthwealth, a large corporation determined to rid the planet of nuclear waste, in order to...

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The Cruellest Journey: 600 Miles By Canoe To The Legendary City Of Timbuktu 13th July 2020

‘In the beginning, my journeys feel at best ludicrous, at worst insane. This one is no exception.’ Kira Salak recently became the first person to successfully canoe 600 miles down the River Niger from Old Ségou to Timbuktu –...

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The Color of a Lion’s Eye: Memories of Africa 6th July 2020

These twenty-four vignettes about a woman’s sojourn as a Peace Corps worker in Malawi and Niger, Africa place the author among the best writers of contemporary travel literature. With heightened awareness of her surroundings, including a description of a...

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Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman 26th June 2020

Maliodoma Patrice Some was born in a Dagara Village, however he was soon to be abducted to a Jesuit school, where he remained for the next fifteen years, being harshly indoctrinated into european ways of thought and worship. The...

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Little Bee 26th June 2020

From the author of the international bestseller Incendiary comes a haunting novel about the tenuous friendship that blooms between two disparate strangers—one an illegal Nigerian refugee, the other a recent widow from suburban London.

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