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Hey Trekkie? Others who read about Africa? I promised my niece today that I would ask you if you had any book recommendations for her. I think she was looking for fiction, because she has plenty of non-fiction reading in her Ph.D program! She did not read all the books by Alexander McCall Smith, but she said she doesn't want to read any more from that series now that she has seen the DVD of the BBC production of "The Number One Ladies Detective Agency". (I think she is so smitten with the actors in that series that she wants to retain her memories of them.) She just finished White Dog Fell From The Sky, which is also about Botswana and is also fiction. (Her Senegalese husband is teasing her that Botswana is now her second favorite country in Africa.)
At any rate, it was fabulous seeing her today. She is through with her studies for this academic year and is going to start studying French this summer. (She is fluent in Spanish and Italian, which she is certified to teach in Connecticut) and also speaks he husband's Senegalese dialect of Wolof. We spent lunch talking about Africa and African non-fiction writers. But I need some help here. Does anyone at all have good recommendations on African fiction?
Thank you all in advance!
AGBF
PS-We are aware of Queen of Katwe.
At any rate, it was fabulous seeing her today. She is through with her studies for this academic year and is going to start studying French this summer. (She is fluent in Spanish and Italian, which she is certified to teach in Connecticut) and also speaks he husband's Senegalese dialect of Wolof. We spent lunch talking about Africa and African non-fiction writers. But I need some help here. Does anyone at all have good recommendations on African fiction?
Thank you all in advance!
AGBF
PS-We are aware of Queen of Katwe.