They Call Me Mama Daktari

by Anne Spoerry

In 1963, at the age of 45, Dr. Anne Spoerry learned to fly and joined the forces of AMREF's East African Flying Doctors. Today, she continues to fly her single-engine Piper Cherokee, providing medical service to a nomadic population. Her practice runs from the Kenya-Ethiopian border to the Tanzanian border, and her solo flights along this route are as familiar to her as a drive to the office.

In They Call Me Mama Daktari, Dr. Spoerry shares her remarkable story: her life during the Second World War; her journeys in the middle east in the 1940s; how she came to live in and fall in love with Africa; and her commitment to the people she serves.

Spoerry's tales read like the best of adventure novels and travel writing. Evocative and moving, They Call Me Mama Daktari is a testimonial about a life spent in the service of the humanitarian ideal.

201 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

Reviews

[Jacqueline]

In het Nederlands, Mama Daktari

[Charlotte Morel]

As the granddaughter of people she has written about this is factually incorrect and offensive to my family

[Deborah Sowery-Quinn · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found this an interesting read. It relates the experiences of a flying doctor in Kenya in the early 1960s.

[Monique · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lezen! Sterk!

[Debbie Steiner · Rating 3 out of 5]

Anne found her dedication with the flying doctors in Kenia. She's a pioneer, a practical allrounder with a basic, majure philosophy - sometimes I doubt todays conditions could still mould such people...