Results for Non Fiction + Coming of Age, set in Africa

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  • Find Me Unafraid
    Find Me Unafraid: Love, Loss, and Hope in an African Slum
    Kennedy Odede, Jessica Posner
    Paperback: 07/26/2016
     
    Find Me Unafraid tells the uncommon love story between two uncommon people whose collaboration sparked a ...
  • A Man of Good Hope
    A Man of Good Hope
    Jonny Steinberg
    Paperback: 12/08/2015
     
    In January 1991, when civil war came to Mogadishu, two-thirds of the city's population fled. Among them ...
  • Bonobo Handshake
    Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo
    Vanessa Woods
    Paperback: 06/07/2011
     
    A young woman follows her fiancé to war-torn Congo to study extremely endangered bonobo apes - who teach ...
  • Twenty Chickens for a Saddle
    Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood
    Robyn Scott
    Paperback: 03/31/2009
     
    A glorious new voice on Africa, Robyn Scott's adventures growing up in Botswana in a loving but eccentric ...

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