You`re in for a treat. This little book glows with love, insight, humor and compassion. The anecdotes about people, animals and events make for first-rate reading, as do the thoughts and comments of a young American priest immersed completely in service to the people of East Africa. The eighty or so stories and comments in African Pilgrimage were excerpted from a decades-long series of letters. Through these letters, the missionary-writer has charmed and inspired his innumerable friends and benefactors around the world. This first volume of African Pilgrimage ends in 1988 after Father Damian became pastor of St. Benedict`s Parish in Magamba, but the rich store of stories and thoughts has continued to build unabated. The tales of those...
As a child with a father in the military establishment, Shirley Baseley spent a large portion of her childhood in East Africa before returning to England as a young adult, where she married and raised children. And yet she still felt the African sun was in her blood. Many of her siblings and their families had returned to the land of their childhood, settling in various African countries on the east coast of that magical continent. In due time, she followed suit, settling in Kenya. In this memoir, she recalls the ups and downs of her many years there: her marriage to a native son, the years during which they ran a successful business together, the dangers of life in an African village during politically unstable times, the friendships...
Everything is different from Africa. The dust of Africa after over forty years is still on the shoes. It’s in the hair, under the fingernails, in the nostrils. In the 1950s, the European colonies in Africa erupted into civil unrest as the long-oppressed black nationals began to stake their claim to independence. Kenya was no exception. A State of Emergency was declared as Jomo Kenyatta and the Mau Mau made their voice against the white settlers heard. As a young boy, Jim Dow was only aware of those troubled times through the affect it had on his fellow classmates and the sudden increased security in and around his Nairobi school. But as he leaves school and begins his career as a promising young journalist, Dow finds himself on hand to...
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This extensive book review - written by an expert on the murder of Princess Diana - exposes Alan Power as a fraudster. Over 200 separate errors are shown, but with Power`s propensity for repetition there are actually well over 500. The most disturbing factor is the nature of the errors - the 180 page review reveals that Power has deliberately duped his readers. There are many instances of Power fraudulently altering sworn witness evidence to fit with his pre-determined false scenario of what occurred. Alan Power Exposed shows that Power`s book is a minefield of deceptive writing, manipulation of evidence, misinformation and misrepresentation of the facts. In the end it becomes impossible for the reader of The Princess Diana Conspiracy to...
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