Ladislara
A blog as diverse as my life has been
Tag: Africa
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Books With Animals on the Cover (TTT)
From Wild Sheep Chase to Mockingbird, passing by horses, buffalos and bees
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West With the Night: The First Woman to Fly Solo Across the Atlantic
The memoir of the British-Kenyan pilot Beryl Markham, a pioneer of African aviation
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She Would be King Review: The Fantastic Tale of Liberia’s Creation
The touching story about the foundation of the only Black state in Africa never subjected to colonial rule.
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Weekly Opening Lines – Sep 14th
The first lines of West With the Night, by Beryl Markham: “How is it possible to bring order out of…”
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Book Review: Nightbloom
The story of two inseparable friends divided by an ocean of grief, rancor and family trauma
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Favourite Books (Read the World Challenge)
I decided to set myself on a (life long) quest to read one book from each country of the world.
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Book Review: Americanah, or How To Become Black in America
A Nigerian woman’s journey of discovery of her own ethnicity after moving to the U.S. – “I did not think of myself as black, and I only became black when I came to America.”
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