Africa

Giza Our host family’s apartment was in Giza, a suburb of Cairo. On the day of our arrival, our host Walid had been hospitalized, but his brother-in-law, his charming wife and his three teenage sons …

There are three Madagascar novels. The first,  Madagascar in the Time of Covid,  follows an elderly novelist to Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar, where he is confined in his hot …

WHAT A BOOK! Discover not only the lifes sustaining joy of Africa but the geography, the translucent and radiant beautiful sunny world of the tropical Africa. As an individual you need it. As a youth …

"Travels in the Interior of Africa Vol. I" is a memoir by Scottish explorer Mungo Park. The book is based on Park's two-year journey through West Africa, where he traveled from the coa …

On December 30, 2007, President Mwai Kibaki was declared the winner of Kenyas presidential election. Within minutes of this declaration, rioting erupted across Kenya, from the coast of the Indian Oce …

This phrase book is a great resource for both rst time and repeat travellers to Botswana. It oers you information about the country, the people, the Setswana language, animals, birds of Botswana and …

Have you ever thought of volunteering to live and work in a developing country to really get to know the people, land and customs? This is the story of Norene’s year of teaching in the northern part …

Exploring the largest swamp in the world, the mighty Okavongo, with the famous crocodile hunter Bobby Wilmot. Leaving South Africa in the middle of the apartheid regime and in the midst of family pro …

Trsor Yenyi was born in Eastern Congo in 1983 at the peak of Mobutus reign. Not realizing he was witnessing history in the making, he was helpless as he observed the country slide first into chaos, t …

A merchant’s account of his travels through an independent African state Muhammad ibn ‘Umar al-Tunisi (d. 1274/1857) belonged to a family of Tunisian merchants trading with Egypt and what is now Suda …