Nomad: 2one Woman's Journey Into the Heart of Africa

by Mary Anne Fitzgerald

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670848468
• ISBN13: 9780670848461
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: Viking Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

The best book about Africa I've ever read

Mary Anne Fitzgerald, the author, is a journalist for the London Times and other British publications. Her skin might be white, but she's an African through and through. Jailed briefly and then exiled from her home in Kenya in 1988 because she wrote some uncomplimentary articles about the government, she fled with her two teenage daughters to the safety of London. She yearned for her homeland, though, and so she then took assignments to cover stories in some of the most dangerous places in Africa. Along the way, she made her own personal discoveries and wrote this book in 1992.I've read a few books about Africa but I must say that this is the one that really made me "feel" it. Ms. Fitzgerald is a fine writer and her love for Africa glows from every page, and, in spite of its brutality, corruption, war and famine, I could also see its majestic beauty. She traveled light, with just the clothes on her back and a small knapsack. She lived among Samburu warriors, she dodged bullets with rebels in Ethiopia, she confronted murder and poaching in the bush of the Central African Republic, she lived through the war in Liberia and she consulted practitioners of magic in the Ivory Coast. Often, she feared for her life. But always she wrote a good story.Her descriptions and interpretations of events are specific. She gets into the heart of the story, setting the scene with her knowledge of history, politics and the details of the infighting for power. I was not acquainted with most of these facts and I found them fascinating. There's only 288 pages in the book but it's a dense read, with something new to learn in every paragraph. I read it slowly, absorbing the information and getting into the skin of this slim middle-aged woman who wears metal bracelets about her elbows and feels more at home in the African bush than she does on a London Street. I give this book my highest recommendation. Read it if you can.

Excellent

One woman's experiences in Africa. The book covers alittle politics, alittle history alittle culture and alot of adventure. I thoroughly enjoyed it all.