 | Christianity Rediscovered by Vincent J. Donovan
Buy new: $16.20 / Used from: $9.99 If you only read one book on evangelism in Africa, this is it.
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 | Africa: Dispatches From a Fragile Continent by Blaine Harden
Buy used from: $1.52 The most helpful thing we've read so far on African/Western patterns of interaction. Gave us a gut-wrenching glimpse into the danger of presuming we understand Africa.
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 | The Road to Hell: The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid and International Charity by Michael Maren
Buy new: $24.25 / Used from: $10.64 Dispel our naivete that foreign aid helps people. Also helpful education on the history of conflict in Somalia.
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 | The wedding goes on without us ;: Including Bury me naked by Raymond Downing
Buy new: $20.00 / Used from: $19.62 Deeply insightful account of a Christian doctor working out the ethics of health care in situations of poverty.
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 | Third Culture Kids: The Experience of Growing Up Among Worlds (Second Revised Edition) by David C. Pollock
Buy used from: $5.93 Gave us a framework for understanding what our kids will experience going with us into a foreign country and returning home.
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 | Nervous Conditions 3 Ed by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Buy used from: $0.01 Zimbabwean novel, great literature, terrific insight into the culture.
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 | Things Fall Apart: A Novel by Chinua Achebe
Buy new: $7.92 / Used from: $0.01 The classic African novel. Everyone should read it, and if you read it in school, read it again now.
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 | Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories (African Writers Series No. 271) by Alifa Rifaat
Buy used from: $1.49 Amazing collection of short stories by an Egyptian woman, offers a total immersion in the experience of a Muslim woman.
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 | The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.75 Not as good as the Harden book, but in the same genre. Helpful in increasing a general understanding of African context.
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 | We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
Buy used from: $1.49 Horrifying, but if we can't pray in the face of horror, we have no business living in Africa.
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 | King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $2.00 Along the "facing the horror" theme. I truly believe that we shouldn't go to Africa ignorant of this history.
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 | Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village by Sarah Erdman
Buy used from: $0.01 We haven't read this yet, but our colleague said it was the most helpful book on understanding power and gender dynamics.
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 | Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.39 Haven't read it yet. A friend said it really inspired her in her AIDS work in Kenya.
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 | Emma's War: An Aid Worker, a Warlord, Radical Islam, and the Politics of Oil--A True Story of Love and Death in Sudan by Deborah Scroggins
Buy used from: $4.50 Engaging and readable account of the conflict in Sudan.
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