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Note to Self;
*Fiction
Notes from the Hyena's Belly
Nega Mezlekia
Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Little Boys Come from the Stars
Emmanuel Dongala
The Icarus Girl
Helen Oyeyemi
*Nonfiction
From Social Silence to Social Science: Same-Sex Sexuality, HIV & AIDS and Gender in South Africa
Vasu Reddy, Theo Sandfort, and Laetitia Rispel
Go Home or Die Here: Violence, Xenophobia and the Reinvention of Difference in South Africa
Tawana Kupe
Read these books, when you get home. Resist ordering them now, as you will then have no room in your luggage to TAKE them home, and will end up constructing some horribly uncomfortable way of shoving them down your pants to get them onto the airplane back to New York.
Of all the books I've read, the fewest in number happen to be concerning about Africa and it's varied people, fictitious or no. And yet, when I comb over my memory for the novels and accounts that were the most compelling, culturally interesting, and intricately & honestly written-- that same small army is always what comes to mind.
So, more books on Africa, get. I don't know nearly enough about the histories and cultures of an entire continent; and that's pretty unacceptable.
On another note, thanks a lot, everyone who sent me well-wishes. &hearts I am taking eight pills a day (enough to kill a small animal, I think), but I am getting better, finally!
The Health Care system in Japan is fantastic. It has all the attributes of what the cliche male-in-an-action-drama looks for in a lady he'd like to buy a drink for at the bar. Cheap, easy, fast, comfortable, and welcoming. Doesn't ask too many questions, and you end the night with a baggie full of drugs.
Have a good day, everyone.
*Fiction
Notes from the Hyena's Belly
Nega Mezlekia
Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Little Boys Come from the Stars
Emmanuel Dongala
The Icarus Girl
Helen Oyeyemi
*Nonfiction
From Social Silence to Social Science: Same-Sex Sexuality, HIV & AIDS and Gender in South Africa
Vasu Reddy, Theo Sandfort, and Laetitia Rispel
Go Home or Die Here: Violence, Xenophobia and the Reinvention of Difference in South Africa
Tawana Kupe
Read these books, when you get home. Resist ordering them now, as you will then have no room in your luggage to TAKE them home, and will end up constructing some horribly uncomfortable way of shoving them down your pants to get them onto the airplane back to New York.
Of all the books I've read, the fewest in number happen to be concerning about Africa and it's varied people, fictitious or no. And yet, when I comb over my memory for the novels and accounts that were the most compelling, culturally interesting, and intricately & honestly written-- that same small army is always what comes to mind.
So, more books on Africa, get. I don't know nearly enough about the histories and cultures of an entire continent; and that's pretty unacceptable.
On another note, thanks a lot, everyone who sent me well-wishes. &hearts I am taking eight pills a day (enough to kill a small animal, I think), but I am getting better, finally!
The Health Care system in Japan is fantastic. It has all the attributes of what the cliche male-in-an-action-drama looks for in a lady he'd like to buy a drink for at the bar. Cheap, easy, fast, comfortable, and welcoming. Doesn't ask too many questions, and you end the night with a baggie full of drugs.
Have a good day, everyone.