SEED Suggested Reading List

I. Books about Africa History and Biography

The Fate of Africa - Martin Meredith • The post independence history of Sub-Saharan Africa. Spanning the entire continent, and covering the major upheavals more or less chronologically—from the promising era of independence to the most recent spate of infamies (Rwanda, Darfur, Zimbabwe, Liberia, Sierra Leone)—Meredith brings us on a journey that is as illuminating as it is grueling. Meredith's history provides a gripping digest of the endemic woes confronting the cradle of humanity. • http://www.amazon.com/The-Fate-Africa-History-Independence/dp/B000WCNWKG

King Leopold’s Ghost - Adam Hochschild (Congo) • In this historical account, Adam Hochschild describes King Leopold of Belgium’s takeover and cruel subjugation of the Belgian Congo from 1885-1909. The book also documents the launch of the international Congo reform movement, which developed from efforts to hold King Leopold accountable to the human rights violations he perpetrated during this period. Hochschild's draws heavily on eyewitness accounts of the colonialists' savagery, brings this little-studied episode in European and African history into new light. • http://www.amazon.com/dp/0618001905/?tag=googhydr- 20&hvadid=13265943641&hvpos=1t1&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=1736528665231244984&hvpon e=10.85&hvptwo=&hvqmt=e&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_17a8squr7j_e

Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela (South Africa) • Since his release from prison in 1990, Nelson Mandela has emerged as the world's most potent moral leader since Gandhi. His pivotal role in the anti-apartheid movement led to a life underground and imprisonment for his political beliefs and activities. A triumphant sequence of events then followed which climaxed in April 1994, with the appointment of Mandela not only as the first-ever black South African president, but as the first man to govern a democratic, multi-racial South African society. This work is Mandela's own account of his and his country's epic journey. • http://www.amazon.com/Long-Walk-Freedom-Autobiography-Mandela/dp/0316548189

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Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town - Paul Theroux • In Dark Star Safari, the wittily observant and endearingly irascible Paul Theroux takes readers the length of Africa by rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, cattle truck, armed convoy, ferry, and train. What results is an insightful meditation on the history, politics, and beauty of Africa and its people, and "a vivid portrayal of the secret sweetness, the hidden vitality, and the long-patient hope that lies just beneath the surface" • http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/0618446877

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed - Jarred Diamond • In Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel , the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization. Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide?

• http://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Societies-Succeed-Revised-Edition/dp/0143117009

Guns Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - Jarred Diamond • In this "artful, informative, and delightful” book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed religion -- as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war --and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, the Rhone-Poulenc Prize, and the Commonwealth club of California's Gold Medal.

• http://www.amazon.com/Guns-Germs-Steel-Fates-Societies/dp/0393317552/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_y

The Invisible Cure: Why we are losing the fight against AIDS in Africa - Helen Epstein • The Invisible Cure is an account of Africa's AIDS epidemic from the inside--a revelatory dispatch from the intersection of village life, government intervention, and international aid. Helen Epstein left her job in the US in 1993 to move to Uganda, where she began work on a test vaccine for HIV. Once there, she met patients, doctors, politicians, and aid workers, and began exploring the problem of AIDS in Africa through the lenses of medicine, politics, economics, and sociology. Amid the catastrophic failure to reverse the epidemic, she discovered a village-based solution that could prove more effective than any network of government intervention and international aid, an intuitive response that calls into question many of the fundamental assumptions about the AIDS in Africa.

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• http://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Cure-Losing-Against- Africa/dp/B0055X5M6E/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1372771884&sr=1- 1&keywords=The+Invisible+Cure%3A+Why+we+are+losing+the+fight+against+AIDS+in+Africa

Mountains Beyond Mountains- Tracy Kidder Pulitzer Prize—winning author Tracy Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who loves the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it. In medical school, Paul Farmer found his life’s calling: to cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most. Kidder’s magnificent account takes us from Harvard to Haiti, Peru, Cuba, and Russia as Farmer changes minds and practices through his dedication to the philosophy that “the only real nation is humanity.” At the heart of this book is the example of a life based on hope and on an understanding of the truth of the Haitian proverb “Beyond mountains there are mountains”–as you solve one problem, another problem presents itself, and so you go on and try to solve that one too.

• http://www.amazon.com/Mountains-Beyond-Farmer-Random- Readers/dp/0812980557/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1372771939&sr=1- 1&keywords=Mountains+Beyond+Mountains

Strength in What Remains – Tracy Kidder Strength in What Remains is an unlikely story about an unreasonable man. Deo was a young medical student who fled the genocidal civil war in Burundi in 1994 for the uncertainty of New York City. Against absurd odds--he arrived with little money and less English and slept in Central Park while delivering groceries for starvation wages--his own ambition and a few kind New Yorkers led him to Columbia University and, beyond that, to medical school and American citizenship. That his rise followed a familiar immigrant's path to success doesn't make it any less remarkable, but what gives Deo's story its particular power is that becoming an American citizen did not erase his connection to Burundi, in either his memory or his dreams for the future. Writing with the same modest but dogged empathy that made his recent Mountains Beyond Mountains a modern classic, Tracy Kidder follows Deo back to Burundi, where he recalls the horrors of his narrow escape from the war and begins to build a medical clinic where none had been before. Deo's terrible journey makes his story a hard one to tell; his tirelessly hopeful but clear-eyed efforts make it a gripping and inspiring one to read.

• http://www.amazon.com/Strength-Remains-Random-Readers- Circle/dp/0812977610/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1372772024&sr=1- 1&keywords=strength+in+what+remains

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The City of Joy – Dominique Lapierre • This is the story of living saints and heroes-- those who abandoned affluent and middle-class lives to dedicate themselves to the poor. And it is a testament to the people of the City of Joy. Their tragedies will move you, but their faith, generosity, and most of all, boundless love will lift you, bless you, and possibly change your life. • http://www.amazon.com/City-Joy-Dominique- Lapierre/dp/8176210528/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1372772141&sr=1- 1&keywords=city+of+joy

Fiction

Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe (Nigeria) • One of Chinua Achebe's many achievements in his acclaimed first novel, Things Fall Apart , is his relentlessly unsentimental rendering of Nigerian tribal life before and after the coming of colonialism. First published in 1958, just two years before Nigeria declared independence from Great Britain, the book eschews the obvious temptation of depicting pre-colonial life as a kind of Eden. Instead, Achebe sketches a world in which violence, war, and suffering exist, but are balanced by a strong sense of tradition, ritual, and social coherence. • http://www.amazon.com/Things-Fall-Apart-Chinua-Achebe/dp/0385474547

Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese (Ethiopia) • Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles--and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined. • http://www.amazon.com/dp/0375714367

The Ladies No.1 Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith (Botswana) • The beloved first novel in The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency seriestells the story of the delightfully cunning and enormously engaging Precious Ramotswe, who is drawn to her profession to “help people with problems in their lives.” Immediately upon setting up shop in a small storefront in Gaborone, Mma Ramotswe is hired to track down a missing husband, uncover a con man, and follow a wayward daughter. But the case that tugs at her heart–and lands her in danger–is that of a missing eleven-year-old boy who may have been snatched by witch doctors.

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• http://www.amazon.com/No-Ladies-Detective-Agency- Book/dp/1400034779/ref=sr_1_1_title_0_main?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1370901951&sr=1- 1&keywords=no+1+ladies+detective+series

Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight - Alexandra Fuller (Rhodesia) • In Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight , Alexandra Fuller remembers her African childhood with candor and sensitivity. Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, it is suffused with Fuller’s endearing ability to find laughter, even when there is little to celebrate. Fuller’s debut is unsentimental and unflinching but always captivating. In wry and sometimes hilarious prose, she stares down disaster and looks back with rage and love at the life of an extraordinary family in an extraordinary time. • http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Lets-Dogs-Tonight-Childhood/dp/0375758992

What is the What - Dave Eggers (Sudan) • What Is the What is the epic novel based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng who, along with thousands of other children —the so-called Lost Boys—was forced to leave his village in Sudan at the age of seven and trek hundreds of miles by foot, pursued by militias, government bombers, and wild animals, crossing the deserts of three countries to find freedom. When he finally is resettled in the United States, he finds a life full of promise, but also heartache and myriad new challenges. Moving, suspenseful, and unexpectedly funny, What Is the What is an astonishing novel that illuminates the lives of millions through one extraordinary man. • http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307385906/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=1535523722& pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe- 1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=1620649136&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1Q7A8RKBTDFKVRQ554 WZ

Anthills of the Savannah- Chinua Achebe • The novel takes place in the imaginary West African country of Kangan, where an officer has taken power following a military coup . Achebe describes the political situation through the experiences of three friends: Chris Oriko, the government's Commissioner for Information; Beatrice Okoh, an official in the Ministry of Finance and girlfriend of Chris; and Ikem Osodi, a newspaper editor critical of the regime. It takes an intimate look at the struggle between traditional governance patterns and western influence. • http://www.amazon.com/Anthills-Savannah-Chinua-Achebe/dp/0385260458

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Say You’re One of Them – Uwem Akpan • This brilliant collection of short stories by Nigerian-born Akpan invites listeners into a world of beauty and heartbreak where young people in the throes of adolescence struggle to survive harrowing violence and tragedy. Miles and the remarkable Graham meet the prose with their own intensity and bring flourishes to the realistic, empathetic characters. Graham is a true stand-out: he inhabits each character fully, aces accents, and excels at conveying an understated melancholy. A thrilling work of art.

• http://www.amazon.com/Youre-Them-Oprahs-Book- Club/dp/B0041T4PGQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1372770897&sr=8- 1&keywords=say+youre+one+of+them

The House at Sugar Beach – Helene Cooper • Journalist Cooper has a compelling story to tell: born into a wealthy, powerful, dynastic Liberian family descended from freed American slaves, she came of age in the 1980s when her homeland slipped into civil war. On Cooper's 14th birthday, her mother gives her a diamond pendant and sends her to school. Cooper is convinced that somehow our world would right itself. That afternoon her uncle Cecil, the minister of foreign affairs, is executed. Cooper combines deeply personal and wide-ranging political strands in her memoir. There's the halcyon early childhood in Africa, a history of the early settlement of Liberia, an account of the violent, troubled years as several regimes are overthrown, and the story of the family's exile to America. A journalist-as-a- young-woman narrative unfolds as Cooper reports the career path that led her from local to national papers in the U.S. The stories themselves are fascinating, but a flatness prevails—perhaps one that mirror's the author's experience. After her uncle's televised execution, Cooper does the same thing I would do for the rest of my life when something bad happens: I focus on something else. I concentrate on minutiae. It's the only way to keep going when the world has ended.

• http://www.amazon.com/The-House-Sugar-Beach- Childhood/dp/0743266250/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1372771572&sr=8- 1&keywords=the+house+at+sugar+beach

II. Web Sites • All Africa o http://allafrica.com/stories/201306101851.html

• CIA World Factbook o https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

• Medical Education Partnership Initiative o http://mepinetwork.org/

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• Sub-Saharan African Medical School Study o http://samss.org/

• Seed Global Health Library

o http://seedglobalhealth.org/the-need/library/

• Global Health Education Consortium Teaching Modules

o http://globalhealtheducation.org/Modules/Pages/Forms/Default.aspx

• Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics: Ethical Challenges in Short-Term Global Health Training

o http://ethicsandglobalhealth.org

• Global Health Learning Center: Courses

o http://www.globalhealthlearning.org/courses

• Global Health Delivery Online

o http://www.ghdonline.org/

III. GHSP Country-specific Books

A. Uganda The Teeth May Smile but the Heart Does Not Forget: Murder and Memory in Uganda – Andrew Rice • The people of Uganda have long struggled to bury the worst of their history, but after the violent reign of Idi Amin, reminders were never far from view. A detective story, a tale of fathers and sons, and a political history, this novel is above all an illumination of the wounded societies of modern Africa and an exploration of how -- and whether -- the past can ever be lain to rest. • http://www.amazon.com/Teeth-Smile-Heart-Does-Forget/dp/0312429738/ref=pd_cp_b_0

Uganda: The Land and Its People – Godfrey Mwakikagile • This is a general introduction to Uganda and its people. The author looks at the country's regions and different ethnic groups from a historical and contemporary perspective. He also examines the different cultures across the country whose ethnic and cultural diversity is one of the most interesting features of this magnificent land. The author has provided a comprehensive picture of the country from a historical and contemporary perspective, making this work an important guide for tourists, students and others going to Uganda. • http://www.amazon.com/Uganda-The-Land-Its-People/dp/9987930891/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_z

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Waiting: A Novel of Uganda’s Hidden War – GorettiKyomuhendo • Set during the last year of the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin’s brutal regime, Waiting exposes the fear and courage of a small, close-knit community uncertain of what the edicts of a madman and the marauding of his uncontrollable army will bring with each coming day. As Amin’s war with Ugandan exiles and the Tanzanian army comes to an end, one family learns what it takes to survive and eventually to plan for a new life. • http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2239871.Waiting

B. Tanzania Tanzania: The Land and Its People – John Ndembwike • This is a general study of Tanzania, the land and its people and history, and a look at contemporary life in the largest country in East Africa and one of the largest on the continent. It is also a general survey of the country's natural resources, crops and minerals, and economic potential. The book also includes some details on the East African Community and the proposed East Africa federation of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania which is supposed to be formed in 2013. • http://www.amazon.com/Tanzania-Land-People-John-Ndembwike/dp/0980253446

In Search of a Nation: Histories of Authority and Dissidence in Tanzania – Gregory Maddox and James Giblin, eds. • The double-sided nature of African nationalism - its capacity to inspire expressions of unity, and its tendency to narrow political debate - are explored by sixteen historians. The narrative of the nation of Tanzania, which was created by the anti-colonial nationalist movement, expanded by the Union after the Zanzibar Revolution, and fused by the ideology of Ujamaa by Julius Nyerere, has shaped Tanzanian political discourse for decades, but has not obliterated the great wealth of political discourses and identities which exist within the nation. • http://www.amazon.com/Search-Nation-Histories-Authority-Dissidence/dp/0821416715

C. Malawi The Lower River – Paul Theroux • When he was a young man, Ellis Hock spent four of the best years of his life with the Peace Corps in Malawi. So when his wife of forty-two years leaves him, he decides to return to the village where he was stationed in search of the happiness he’d been missing since he left. But what he finds is not what he expected. The school he built is a ruin, the church and clinic are gone, and poverty and apathy have set in among the people.They remember Ellis and welcome him with open arms. Soon, however, their overtures turn menacing; they demand money and refuse to let him leave the village. Is his new life an escape or a trap? • http://www.amazon.com/dp/0544002253

Venture to the Interior – Laurens van der Post • Just after World War II, Van der Post was sent by the British government to explore and report on two little known and little inhabited regions of British Nyasaland (later Malawi). These two areas are highlands and mountainous, rather atypical of Africa. "Venture to the Interior" is a thoughtful, philosophical, and introspective account of the expedition. He describes the journey, both the physical and the mental, in prose that is honest and clear. His thoughts on Africa are usually interesting and often profound. • http://www.amazon.com/Venture-Interior-Vintage-classics-Laurens/dp/0099428733

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Across the Footsteps of Africa: the Experiences of an Ecuadorian Doctor in Malawi and Mozambique – Benjamin PuertasDonoso • This book documents the experiences of an Ecuadorian physician working as a health coordinator in refugee camps among the Chewa and Yao people in two countries challenged by important political and historical transformations: Malawi and Mozambique. While working with the French organization Medecins Sans Frontieres, the author witnessed the horror of the long civil war in Mozambique, becoming one of the first health professionals to access a guerilla training camp for child soldiers. Stories of cruelty and sacrifice, international health and technical cooperation, traditional medicine, the daily struggle against malaria and AIDS, the refugee drama, and the social and political changes of the region, are vividly described throughout the book from the perspective of a Latin American professional. • http://www.amazon.com/Across-Footsteps-Africa-Experiences-Ecuadorian/dp/0865436401

IV. General Interest High Level Wellness: An Alternative to Doctors, Drugs, and Disease – Donald B. Ardell

• Donald B. Ardell has been one of the leading figures in the wellness movement for four decades. The author of numerous books and articles on wellness he has also been a popular speaker on wellness-related topics. In 1977 he published High Level Wellness: An Alternative to Doctors, Drugs, and Disease, expanding the concept of High Level Wellness first employed by Halbert Dunn. Ardell's book was a best-seller, published initially by Rodale Press and then in numerous reprint editions by Bantam Books and Ten-Speed Press. He later wrote more than a dozen additional wellness books, including 14 Days to a Wellness Lifestyle, REAL Wellness and Aging Beyond Belief.

• http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/high-level-wellness-donald-b- ardell/1008110354?ean=9780878571949

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