August 11

Wild African Book Club

By Matthew Sterne on August 11, 2010

 

If you’re one of the folk who commute to work on the tube or the bus on a continent far away from our own, perhaps we can help you escape, in your mind at least, to the hot, red sand of Africa where the cicadas will sing you to sleep. We asked some of our team (the literate ones) for their favourite African books:

Craig – Mafeking Road and Other Stories by Herman Charles Bosman

Ross – Mukiwa by Peter Godwin

Jeanne – Jock of the Bushveld by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick

Anton – The Power of One by Bryce Courtney

David – Around Africa on my Bike by Riaan Manser

Billy – In a Different Time by Peter Harris

Sam – Spud by John Van De Ruit

Monique – The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

Kyle – Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

Bianca – Are We There Yet? By David Smiedt

If you have a favourite, we’d love to hear it, so please share…


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Matthew Sterne

Matt discovered a passion for writing in the six years he spent travelling abroad. He worked for a turtle sanctuary in Nicaragua, in an ice cream factory in Norway and on a camel safari in India. He was a door-to-door lightbulb-exchanger in Australia, a pub crawl guide in Amsterdam and a journalist in Colombia. Now, he writes and travels with us.

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