In this stunning memoir, veteran Washington Post correspondent Lynne Duke takes readers on a wrenching but riveting journey through Africa d...
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Feb 06, 2011
Mpho3
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For any readers who were disappointed by Duke's personal journey commentary, try reading A Continent for the Taking by Howard French. The two books have some overlap, but French, a writer for the New York Times, takes more of an analytical approach. His style is a bit more dense and less breezy than Duke's but engaging nonetheless. As for Duke's book, I, too, was initially put off by her personal commentary but as I moved through the entire book, I began to appreciate it as a memoir of her exper
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Jul 27, 2008
Terri
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Lynne Duke worked as a correspondent in Zaire/Congo and South Africa during very turbulent and newsmaking times. She explores the hopes and failures of regimes, governments and individuals in African politics and wars. She faces extreme poverty and racial hatred, AIDS and its social devistation. The root of the Congo Wars and why they continue. In it all she shares her love and understanding of how the things happening there are a piece of her own understanding of herself as an African Ameri
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Apr 26, 2009
Jeanie
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UCLA graduate working for the Washington Post writes about her four years in Africa. Not reflective but uninformative.
Dec 28, 2008
Beth
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Very interesting. Made me realize how little I still know about Africa and need to learn.
Aug 03, 2007
Rachel
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I read this one in Namibia waiting for Jer to come back from mediacal appointments....not the best read but ok if stuck in Windhoek.
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