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10 best books like Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village (Sarah Erdman): Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali, Mango Elephants in the Sun: How Life in an African Village Let Me Be in My Skin, Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa, Malaria Dreams: An African Adventure, No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo, Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir, The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa, Notes from the Hyena's Belly: An Ethiopian Boyhood, Emma's War, Blue Clay People: Seasons on Africa's Fragile Edge

Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali
AuthorKris Holloway
Monique and the Mango Rains is the compelling story of a rare friendship between a young Peace Corps volunteer and a midwife who became a legend. Monique Dembele saved lives and dispensed hope in a place where childbirth is a life-and-death matter. This book tells of her unquenchable passion to better...
Mango Elephants in the Sun: How Life in an African Village Let Me Be in My Skin
AuthorSusana Herrera
ISBN1570625727
When the Peace Corps sends Susana Herrera to teach English in Northern Cameroon, she yearns to embrace her adopted village and its people, to drink deep from the spirit of Mother Africa—and to forget a bitter childhood and painful past. To the villagers, however, she's a rich American tourist, a nasara...
Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa
AuthorPeter Godwin
ISBN0802141927
The Barnes & Noble Review
January 1998

Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa is the story of Peter Godwin's experiences growing up in Rhodesia. He recounts the story of that country's violent transformation into Zimbabwe, as well as his own personal metamorphoses from privileged boy to reluctant...
Malaria Dreams: An African Adventure
AuthorStuart Stevens
Malaria Dreams is a book about the author and his friend's trip from West Africa to the Mediterranean in a questionable car, and it's well written. So why the one star?

I like adventure travel and adventure travel books better than the next guy usually- depending on who the next guy actually is,...
No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo
AuthorRedmond O'Hanlon
ISBN0679737324
Redmond O'Hanlon has journeyed among headhunters in deepest Borneo with the poet James Fenton, and amid the most reticent, imperilled and violent tribe in the Amazon Basin with a night-club manager. This, however, is his boldest journey yet. Accompanied by Lary Shaffer - an American friend and animal...
Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir
AuthorNeely Tucker
ISBN1400081602
Against a background of war, terrorism, disease and unbearable uncertainty about the future, this story of how a foreign correspondent and his wife fought to adopt a Zimbabwean baby emerges as an inspiring testament to the miracles that love and dogged determination can sometimes achieve. Don't...
The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa
AuthorJosh Swiller
ISBN0805082107
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 and amplify them." Josh Swiller recited this speech to himself on the...
Notes from the Hyena's Belly: An Ethiopian Boyhood
AuthorNega Mezlekia
ISBN0312289146
Winner of the Governor General's Award
A Library Journal Best Book of 2001

Part autobiography and part social history, Notes from the Hyena's Belly offers an unforgettable portrait of Ethiopia, and of Africa, during the 1970s and '80s, an era of civil war, widespread famine, and mass...
Emma's War
AuthorDeborah Scroggins
ISBN0375703772
Tall, striking, and adventurous to a fault, young British relief worker Emma McCune came to Sudan determined to make a difference in a country decimated by the longest-running civil war in Africa. She became a near legend in the bullet-scarred, famine-ridden country, but her eventual marriage to...
Blue Clay People: Seasons on Africa's Fragile Edge
AuthorWilliam Powers
ISBN1582346445
"A haunting account of one man's determination and the struggles of a people living in a deeply troubled country."--Booklist

When William Powers went to Liberia as a fresh-faced aid worker in 1999, he was given the mandate to "fight poverty and save the rainforest." It wasn't long before Powers...
Somebody's Heart Is Burning: A Woman Wanderer in Africa
AuthorTanya Shaffer
ISBN1400032598
“It's my life, and if I want to run from it I can,” quips Tanya Shaffer. An incorrigible wanderer, Shaffer has a habit of fleeing domesticity for the joys and rigors of the open road. This time her destination is Ghana, and what results is a transformative year spent roaming the African continent....
Born in the Big Rains: A Memoir of Somalia and Survival
AuthorFadumo Korn
ISBN1558615318

This powerful memoir portrays the life-altering transformation of a feisty nomad girl who undergoes genital excision. Crippled with rheumatism as a result of the cutting, Fadumo Korn, who once freely roamed the deserts of her native Somalia, is sent to live with a wealthy uncle, brother to the...
Where We Have Hope: A Memoir of Zimbabwe
AuthorAndrew Meldrum
ISBN0802142516
Where We Have Hope is the gripping memoir of a young American journalist. In 1980, Andrew Meldrum arrived in a Zimbabwe flush with new independence, and he fell in love with the country and its optimism. But over the twenty years he lived there, Meldrum watched as President Robert Mugabe consolidated...
Rainbow's End: A Memoir of Childhood, War and an African Farm
AuthorLauren St. John
ISBN0743286790
This is a story about a paradise lost. . . . About an African dream that began with a murder . . .In 1978, in the final, bloodiest phase of the Rhodesian civil war, eleven-year-old Lauren St John moves with her family to Rainbow's End, a wild, beautiful farm and game reserve set on the banks of a slowflowing...
The Village of Waiting
AuthorGeorge Packer
ISBN0374527806
Now restored to print with a new Foreword by Philip Gourevitch and an Afterword by the author, this book is a frank, moving, and vivid account of contemporary life in West Africa. Stationed as a Peace Corps instructor in the village of Lavié (the name means "wait a little more") in tiny and underdeveloped...
Looking for Lovedu: A Woman's Journey Through Africa
AuthorAnn Jones
ISBN0375705333
The adventure began when a young British photographer, Kevin Muggleton, suggested driving from one end of Africa to the other–“You know, the old ‘Cape to Cairo’ sort of thing.” For the renowned feminist writer Ann Jones, it soon became an expedition with a mission: to find the legendary...
The Ponds of Kalambayi
AuthorMike Tidwell
My impression of Peace Corps memoirs, before reading this book, was not good. This seems to be recognized as one of the better ones, and as an engaging, perceptive memoir with a strong writing style, it certainly exceeded my expectations.

Tidwell spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in...
Dear Exile: The True Story of Two Friends Separated (for a Year) by an Ocean
AuthorHilary Liftin
ISBN0375703675
A funny and moving story told through the letters of two women nurturing a friendship as they are separated by distance, experience, and time.

Close friends and former college roommates, Hilary Liftin and Kate Montgomery promised to write when Kate's Peace Corps assignment took her to Africa.  Over...
Angry Wind: Through Muslim Black Africa by Truck, Bus, Boat, and Camel
AuthorJeffrey Tayler
Hailed by Bill Bryson and the New York Times Book Review as a rising star among travel writers, Jeffrey Tayler penetrates one of the most isolated, forbidding regions on earth--the Sahel. This lower expanse of the Sahara, which marks the southern limit of Islam’s reach in West and Central Africa,...
The Trouble with Africa: Why Foreign Aid Isn't Working
AuthorRobert Calderisi
ISBN0300120176
After years of frustration at the stifling atmosphere of political correctness surrounding discussions of Africa, long time World Bank official Robert Calderisi speaks out. He boldly reveals how most of Africa's misfortunes are self-imposed, and why the world must now deal differently with the...
Twenty Chickens for a Saddle
AuthorRobyn Scott
In this brilliant, hilarious memoir, Robyn Scott recounts the years living in Botswana while her dad works as a flying doctor. At first she thinks her parents don't have the best ideas, but soon she begins to realize the importance of her father's work. Botswana has the highest rate of HIV infection in...
A Life Inspired: Tales of Peace Corps Service
AuthorPeace Corps
ISBN0964447266
Twenty-eight first-person stories, recount the unique experience of being a Peace Corps Volunteer.  Compelling, inspiring, sometimes funny, often poignant, these stories represent the breadth of Peace Corps work, the countries it serves, and its Volunteer diversity.  Together, the stories...
North of South: An African Journey
AuthorShiva Naipaul
ISBN0140188266
In the 1970s Shiva Naipaul travelled to Africa, visiting Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia for several months. Through his experiences, the places he visited and his various encounters, he aimed to discover what 'liberation', 'revolution' and 'socialism' meant to the ordinary people. His journey of discovery...
Crossing the Heart of Africa: An Odyssey of Love and Adventure
AuthorJulian Smith
ISBN0061873470
Here is the amazing true story of Julian Smith, who retraced the journey of legendary British explorer Ewart ''the Leopard'' Grogan, the first man to cross the length of Africa, in hopes of winning the heart of the woman he loved.

In 1898 the dashing young British explorer Ewart ''the Leopard''...
Living Poor
AuthorMoritz Thomsen
ISBN0295969288
this was the one of MANY peace corps memoirs i suffered through (reading material choices were limited to our paltry communal bookshelves in the volunteer lounge of the swaziland peace corps office).
anyway, i used to write a monthly literature review box or our volunteer newsletter, and one month...
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