Africa Reading Challenge

I’ve decided to participate in the Africa Reading Challenge that Siphoning Off A Few Thoughts has issued for 2008. Abridged instructions can be found below (for complete details, click the link above):

Participants commit to read - in the course of 2008 - six books that either were written by African writers, take place in Africa, or deal significantly with Africans and African issues.  (Read more if you like!)

Here are links to my reviews thus far:

Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller - Zimbabwe 

Untapped: The Scramble for Africa’s Oil by John Ghazvinian - West and Central Africa

Mugabe: Power, Plunder, and the Struggle for Zimbabwe by Martin Meredith - Zimbabwe

No Place Left to Bury the Dead: Denial, Despair, and Hope in Africa’s AIDS Pandemic by Nicole Itano - Lesotho, South Africa, and Botswana  

Love in the Driest Season by Neely Tucker - Zimbabwe

Measuring Time by Helon Habila - Nigeria

Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan -Nigeria, Rwanda, Kenya, Gabon, & Ethiopia