Africa
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Go, Girl! The Black Woman’s Book of Travel & Adventure: Compiled by Elaine Lee
Published by The Eighth Mountain Press, 1997, 368 pages Elaine Lee is an African-American woman who has made travel a way of life. Her compilation of 52 pieces of travel writing by African-American women encourages black women to travel by… Continue reading
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A Year in the World—Journeys of a Passionate Traveller: Frances Mayes
Published by Broadway, 2006, 448 pages “How do place and character intertwine? Could I feel at home here? What is home to those around me? Who are they in their homes, those mysterious others?” To find out, Frances Mayes (of Under… Continue reading
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A House in Fez—Building a Life in the Ancient Heart of Morocco: Suzanna Clarke
Published by Ebury Press / Simon & Schuster, 2008, 295 pages How many times have you been to a place and dreamed about what it would be like to settle down there? Suzanna Clarke fell in love with Medina, the… Continue reading
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Travelling While Black—Essays from a Life on the Move: Nanjala Nyabola
Published by Hurst, 2020, 264 pages Some of us travel for pleasure or work, others have no choice but to leave their homes to try and find refuge elsewhere. In this book, Nanjala Nyabola—a political analyst from Kenya—writes about people… Continue reading
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All Strangers are Kin—Adventures in Arabic and the Arab World: Zora O’Neill
Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, 336 pages At a time when media coverage of the Middle East and North Africa is full of images of war, destruction and repression, and Arabic is increasingly associated with terrorists, Zora O’Neill’s book provides another… Continue reading
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The Imported Ghanaian: Alba Kunadu Sumprim
Published by Mavrik, 20o6, 288 pages One way to really know a country is through its people. Alba Kunadu Sumprim’s parents are Ghanaian, but she was born and raised in London. She had decided to move back to Ghana, thinking… Continue reading
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The Olive Route—A Personal Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean: Carol Drinkwater
Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006, 448 pages. Carol Drinkwater is passionate about the olive tree—she has an olive grove in Provence—and this book is about her search for its history around the Mediterranean through Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Malta, Tunisia,… Continue reading
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Looking for Transwonderland—Travels in Nigeria: Noo Saro-Wiwa
As a child, Noo Saro-Wiwa used to go to Nigeria for her school holidays. Her father, the Nigerian activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, had moved his family to the UK so the children could have the best education possible. But he also… Continue reading
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A Handful of Honey—Away to the Palm Groves of Morocco and Algeria: Annie Hawes
Published by Pan Publishing, 2008, 418 pages. The book starts unexpectedly with Annie Hawes, an adolescent, imprisoned in a high security prison in Salazar’s Portugal (she never found out why). She was eventually released and deported to the UK. On… Continue reading
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