Blogs in October 2020

Warrior Princess 1st October 2020

Princess Kasune Zulu grew up in an Africa trying to make sense of the mystery illness claiming its people. As a child, she could not know the disease that claimed the lives of her parents and baby sister would...

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Patchwork 1st October 2020

Winner of the Penguin Prize for African Writing 2010 (fiction). Destined from birth to inhabit two very different worlds – that of her father, the wealthy Joseph Sakavungo, and that of her mother, his mistress – this emotive tale...

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The Eye of the Elephant 30th September 2020

“Exciting. . . part adventure story, part wildlife tale”–The Boston Globe Intelligent, majestic, and loyal, with lifespans matching our own, elephants are among the greatest of the wonders gracing the African wilds. Yet, in the 1970s and 1980s, about...

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The Unheard 30th September 2020

A young man’s quest to reconcile his deafness in an unforgiving world leads to a remarkable sojourn in a remote African village that pulsates with beauty and violence These are hearing aids. They take the sounds of the world...

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Mrs. Pollifax on Safari 30th September 2020

Now the incredible Mrs. Pollifax has been sent on a safari to smoke out a very clever international assassin whose next target is the president of Zambia. “Just take a lot of pictures of everyone on that safari,” the...

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