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  • Bride Price

    African Memoir, #1

    by Ian Mathie ...
    Series Book 1 - African Memoir
    Sent to the tropical jungle of central Africa to teach villagers how to get clean drinking water, Ian Mathie lived for some time in a village deep in the forest. The village elders and witch doctor, together with the local political agent, persuaded him to foster Abélé, an orphan from the community who had been ostracized because her parents were considered sorcerers. In tribal societies such as ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Man in a Mud Hut

    African Memoir, #2

    by Ian Mathie ...
    Series Book 2 - African Memoir
    An uninvited 'ferret' from Whitehall, dark deeds in the 'heart of darkness', escape from bloody terror and black magic - a true story that shocks the sensibilities and staggers the imagination... West Africa is the setting for Man in a Mud Hut, an intriguing story of witchcraft, wizardry, water resources and Whitehall bureaucracy. It is the gripping true account of a clash of cultures and what can ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Supper with the President

    African Memoir, #3

    by Ian Mathie ...
    Series Book 3 - African Memoir
    West Africa in the 1970s: volatile years immediately following independence brought the author in contact with a number of Presidents, five Kings, two Emperors, dozens of village and tribal chiefs and a succession of extraordinary people. Circumstances contrived to place him at dinner with four heads of state whose rule had immense impact, positive and negative, on their countries and on West ... Read more

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  • Sorcerers and Orange Peel

    African Memoir, #5

    by Ian Mathie ...
    Series Book 5 - African Memoir
    Sorcery is a fact of life in many African societies; the supernatural is taken for granted. When Ian Mathie came across an elderly couple, sick and abandoned in an inhospitable part of West Africa, he ignored the warning signs of witchcraft and frightening encounters with an apparition to coax them back to health. Thus began a remarkable association with one small and remote village whose ... Read more

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  • Dust of the Danakil

    African Memoir, #4

    by Ian Mathie ...
    Series Book 4 - African Memoir
    Drought is a natural disaster; starvation is a man-made tragedy. Preventing the first can go a long way to alleviating the second, but not without the political will, as Ian Mathie makes clear in this gripping memoir of the 1974 humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia. Dust of the Danakil is a true story of an ill-conceived project in the violent, drought-stricken Danakil region of Ethiopia. The author, ... Read more

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    The Terrifying Journey through the World's Most Dangerous Country

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  • The Tree of Enchantment

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