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Book ReviewsHelena Halprin Africa World Press, Trenton, N.J. 2005 Bob Gribbin This is an impressive book that illustrates dozens of fascinating issues. It is based on the simple idea of letting Kenyan women speak for themselves. Author Halperin conducted hundreds of interviews in the mid-nineties and a few more in 2001–03. She culled and edited by subject into the resulting book. Bob Gribbin Bob Gribbin Bob Gribbin is exploring Alaska in August so you all have a break in your reading of books by Kenyan authors or about Kenya. If you have any suggestions for books for him to review, please send him an Three different ones Bob Gribbin West with the Night, by Beryl Markham North Point Press, San Francisco, 1983 Straight on till Morning, by Mavis Lovell St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1987 The Lives of Beryl Markham, by Errol Trzebinski Philip Caputo Adventure Press, National Geographic, Washington, D.C., 2002 Bob Gribbin Ghosts of Tsavo—Stalking the Mystery Lions of East Africa rightly sounds like what it is: a nature and adventure story. But it is also a bit more than that. It is an inquiry into why lions become man-eaters and, in particular, why the two lions dubbed “the ghost” and “the darkness” terrorized and dined upon laborers for eight months at the Tsavo River bridge in 1900. Those two beasts were ultimately killed by Colonel John Patterson. They now are stuffed and reside in Chicago’s Field Museum. Robert E. Gribbin iUniverse, Lincoln, Nebraska, 2005 David Lille for PeaceCorpsWriters.org TOURING A RWANDAN CHURCH, site of unimaginable genocidal horror, the newly arrived U.S. Ambassador to Rwanda, Robert E. Gribbin, heard a “crunch underfoot,” revealing a human jawbone. Hours earlier, he visited a Kigali prison teeming with over 10,000 men accused of committing the very horrors that led to one of the most efficient and well-planned genocides in modern history. Space was so tight men sat and slept in shifts. Arthur Gakwandi East African Educational Publishers, Nairobi, 1997 Bob Gribbin This novel of African life was written by Dr. Arthur Gakwandi, a Ugandan diplomat and professor at Makerere University. The book can be hard to find, but now is listed on Amazon. I suppose that some of you taught this book in literature class because I believe that it is now on the East African secondary syllabus. In any case, it is a revealing portrait of modern Africa. |