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books that helped us prepare for Christian work in Kenya

Eden Grace
Qualifications: American Quaker in Kenya

Christianity Rediscovered by Vincent J. Donovan
$11.70 Used & New from: $11.52
If you only read one book on evangelism in Africa, this is it.

Africa: Dispatches from a Fragile Continent by Blaine Harden
Used & New from: $3.84
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.

The Road to Hell: The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid and International Charity by Michael Maren
$26.95 Used & New from: $12.96
Dispel our naivete that foreign aid helps people. Also helpful education on the history of conflict in Somalia.

The wedding goes on without us ;: Including Bury me naked by Raymond Downing
$20.00 Used & New from: $15.00
Deeply insightful account of a Christian doctor working out the ethics of health care in situations of poverty.

Third Culture Kids by David C. Pollock
$12.97 Used & New from: $12.50
Gave us a framework for understanding what our kids will experience going with us into a foreign country and returning home.

Nervous Conditions 3 Ed by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Used & New from: $2.05
Zimbabwean novel, great literature, terrific insight into the culture.

Things Fall Apart: A Novel by Chinua Achebe
$9.95 Used & New from: $0.50
The classic African novel. Everyone should read it, and if you read it in school, read it again now.

Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories (African Writers Series No. 271) by Alifa Rifaat
$11.95 Used & New from: $4.95
Amazing collection of short stories by an Egyptian woman, offers a total immersion in the experience of a Muslim woman.

The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski
$10.20 Used & New from: $7.98
Not as good as the Harden book, but in the same genre. Helpful in increasing a general understanding of African context.

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
Used & New from: $9.95
Horrifying, but if we can't pray in the face of horror, we have no business living in Africa.

King Leopold�s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
$9.75 Used & New from: $3.79
Along the "facing the horror" theme. I truly believe that we shouldn't go to Africa ignorant of this history.

Nine Hills to Nambonkaha : Two Years in the Heart of an African Village by Sarah Erdman
$14.95 Used & New from: $3.73
We haven't read this yet, but our colleague said it was the most helpful book on understanding power and gender dynamics.

Mountains Beyond Mountains : The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder
$9.72 Used & New from: $7.22
Haven't read it yet. A friend said it really inspired her in her AIDS work in Kenya.

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
Used & New from: $6.00
Engaging and readable account of the conflict in Sudan.

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