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<I>Don't Let's go to the Dogs Tonight</I> is a wonderfully evocative memoir of Alexandra Fuller's African childhood. Fuller regards herself as a daughter of Africa, who spent her early life on farms in Zimbabwe, Malawi and Zambia throughout the turbulent 1970s and 80s, as her parents fought to keep <I>one</I> country in Africa white-run, but lost twice in Kenya and Zimbabwe. This is a profoundly personal story about growing up with a pair of funny, tough, white African settlers, and living with their sometimes breathlessly illogical decisions, as they move from war-torn Zimbabwe to disease and malnutrition in Malawi, and finally the beautiful and fertile land of Zambia. <p> Central to Fuller's book is the intense relations between herself and her parents, a chain-smoking father able to turn round any farm in Africa, her glamorous older sister Vanessa, and the character who sits at the heart of the book, Fuller's fiercely intelligent, deeply compassionate, surprisingly witty and terrifyingly mad mother. <p>Fuller weaves together painful family tragedy with a wider understanding of the ambivalence of being part of a separatist white farming community in the midst of Black African independence. The majority of the book focuses on Fuller's early years in war-torn Zimbabwe, with more history stuffed into its make-believe, colonial-dream borders than one country the size of a very large teapot should be able to amass. This is the most successful dimension of the book, as Fuller describes growing up on farm where her father is away most nights fighting terrorists, and stripping a rifle takes precedence over school lessons. The sections on Malawi and Zambia are more prosaic, but this is a lyrical and accomplished memoir about Africa, which is about adjusting to a new world view and the author's passionate love for a continent that has come to define, shape, scar and heal me and my family. --<I>Jerry Brotton</I>
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Picador Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier
These days, powerfully evocative personal memoirs like Alexandra Fuller's <I>Scribbling the Cat</I> are so plentiful, it would be tempting to think that such quality writing is the norm. Generally, it isn't--but on the strength of this book and Fuller's equally impressive <I>Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight</I>, this is an author from whom we may expect only the best. <p> The first book, a childhood memoir, brought the author's childhood experiences as a young white girl living on a farm in Rhodesia (and suffering through the Civil War) vividly to life; the new book has Alexandra Fuller (known as 'Bo') taking a journey to her parents' farm in Zambia and finding things very changed. She encounters the beguiling and attractive neighbour of her parents, 'K', who has lived life on the edge. He entrances Alexandra with descriptions of the turbulent life he has led, and the two form a bond, attempting to forge a shared approach to life and love in a land that is tearing itself apart with civil strife.<p> In her atmospheric and subtle prose, Fuller pulls off something of a juggling act here: while the relationship between herself and the conflicted, seductive 'K' is foregrounded, with every nuance of emotion between the two subtly delineated, the reader is simultaneously granted a picture of a country in strife that misses nary a detail in its careful but discursive line drawing. The author may have settled down to family life in Wyoming, but it's impossible not to feel that this was clearly the most significant period of her life--and her sharing of that time with the reader in this finely-honed book is something for which we may be grateful. --<I>Barry Forshaw</I>
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Doubleday An African Princess
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University of Chicago Press Hustling Is Not Stealing: Stories of an African Bar Girl
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Indiana University Press The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: Discourse About Values in an African Culture
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Saint Martin's Press Memories of an African Hunter
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Saint Martin's Press Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village
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University of Michigan Press A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt: An African Memoir
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Black Swan Before the Knife: Memories of an African Childhood
The novelist Carolyn Slaughter digs deep into her childhood to write <I>Before the Knife</I>, a bleak and disturbing memoir about growing up in pre-independence Africa under the spell of parental sexual abuse. Her story appears to involve an ordinary English family living in a very remote part of southern Africa during the lingering years of British colonial rule. However, at the age of six Slaughter was raped by her own father, which obliterated in one moment both the innocence of my childhood and the fragile structure of our English family life. We all knew. The book proceeds to paint a desperate portrait of the increasingly unhappy child and her emotionally crippled sister, controlled by a depressive, unsympathetic mother and a terrifying, violent father, a colonial official who enjoys beating the natives almost as much as abusing his family. <p> <I>Before the Knife</I> is ostensibly about growing up in Botswana at a time when cracks in the rigidly maintained colonial structure began to appear, and there are deeply lyrical descriptions of the African landscape and Slaughter's identification with its inhabitants, but the horror of abuse pervades the book. Slaughter's problem is that she has tried to write two books, one about Africa, one about abuse. For her, both are inextricably connected, but her understandable hatred towards her father prevents her from speculating on the connection between colonialism and familial abuse, or explaining how she learnt to forgive, years after the death of both her parents. Some readers might find that <I>Before the Knife</i> is ultimately a little too personal for comfort. --<I>Jerry Brotton</I>
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Scholastic US At Her Majesty's Request: An African Princess in Victorian England
Once there was a little girl--an orphaned African princess--who narrowly escaped death by human sacrifice in a West African village in 1850. A British sea captain named Frederick E. Forbes saved her life by talking King Gezo of Dahomey into giving the girl to Queen Victoria of England as a gift; She would be a present from the King of the Blacks to the Queen of the Whites. As impossible as this tale sounds, it is a true one. Award-winning author Walter Dean Myers--piecing together her story from letters he found in a rare-book and ephemera shop in London--paints a hauntingly detached portrait of the small African princess, whom the heroic captain named Sarah Forbes Bonetta. <p> We follow her charmed but unlucky life as the Queen's protégée through a succession of British middle-class households, beginning with the Forbes home. Because of her celebrated association and frequent visits with the Queen, Sarah grows up in an unusual position of privilege, education, and celebrity. On the flip side, she is keenly aware that her decisions are not her own, and as a rescued orphan under the Queen's protection, her life's path is dictated by those acting in what they perceive to be her best interests. It is hard not to feel that it was cruel of her protectors to wrench her from the adopted family she adores (more than once in her life), and eventually to encourage her to marry a man, a West African businessman, whom she clearly stated she could never love and who would even take her away from her adopted country. As the epilogue states, She was both unfortunate in her losses, and fortunate that those losses were not greater... She seemed to find a measure of comfort wherever she was, but was destined to be apart from the world in which she lived... This story, rich with historic prints, photographs, newspaper clips, excerpts from Queen Victoria's diary, and Sarah's letters, is both fascinating and tragic. We have Myers to thank for rescuing this fine woman again--this time from the forgotten shelf of a London bookstore. (Ages 11 and older).--<I>Amazon.com&l t;/I>
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Frances Lincoln Publishers Welcome Dede: An African Baby's Naming Ceremony
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Frances Lincoln Publishers Emeka's Gift: An African Counting Story
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Africa Community Publishing & Development Trust,Zimbabwe The Rainbow Encircling the People. An African Guide to Democracy
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Farrar Straus Giroux The Dark Child: The Autobiography of an African Boy
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Paulist Press International,U.S. Toward an African Christianity: Inculturation Applied
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University of Minnesota Press The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses
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