Storiesfromafrica Stories

This is a very fine book. I read it soon after reading Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart." And like that amazing novel, "The Last Pagan" vividly describes life in Africa while also exploring critical issues of religion, society, corporate greed, corruption, and environmental destruction. Rich in detail and description, this book paints an evocative portrait of life in the village of Oguta mostly through the eyes of a young character, Onyije, who struggles to reconcile his more urban, Christian upbringing in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, with a more tribal Oguta lifestyle that still practices "pagan" ancestor worship - to a diminishing degree. As Plato did, the author uses the simple device of having his characters question and debate the book's major themes through dialogue and discussion (and sometimes in dreams). He does so with a very generous and loving writing spirit. I gained a lot of insight reading this book and was transported to a world rather foreign to me. For that I am grateful. Review by Joseph Kaminski.

Thinking of her with someone else made me furious! Someone else kissing her, touching her, making her laugh. Someone else apart from me! Someone said something that made her laugh. The sound of her laughter! Damn, this girl is driving me nuts already! Who the hell does she think she is?

A collection of short stories telling of those eventful moments that make being a Safari Guide a calling. Having worked in some of Africa's last great wilderness's I have witnessed scenes of harrowing sorrow, experienced moments of terror, watched on as nature displays her caring side and laughed as myself or those around me live those moments that leave us looking a little foolish. All of life is out there, in the bush, it is real and filled with a vibrancy that is hard to experience in our health and safety conscious first world environment, I feel lucky to have experienced it and hope you will enjoy some of my anecdotes.

The diary of a teenage girl

a collection of poems straight out of Africa