Jambo Mama

Written out of desperation to be known. This selfish woman wrote the book hoping to make a name out of it. There is a lot of humour in the book that make it exiciting to read otherwise it's written on wrong motives. At least that's how I see it.

Jombo Mama (6/19 people found this helpful)

Pretty good but I did have a good laugh when she started talking about the British. I didn't know that it was offensive to ask about someone's job in Britain, I didn't know that the British always stay married even if a couple can't stay in the same room together, I didn't know that the primary consideration for a British marrige is whether you have the right background and that the British view towards Africans is obnoxious on a good day!!!!! I mean in America black people and white people couldn't even share a water fountain together in the 60's!!! But other than that its a pretty good book.

'Out of Africa' for the New Millennium! (48/49 people found this helpful)

A couple of years ago I was looking around for Internet sites on Kenya and by chance came across the first chapters of Melinda Atwood's story. I was immediately hooked, and I still keep dipping in to reread chapters over and over again - I grew up in Uganda and Kenya and found Melinda's story telling so refreshingly truthful about the place I still think of as 'home'. I saw Kenya again, and all the people I had known, but through her eyes, and felt so homesick. The people and the places she writes about are all very real. They do exist, from the scruffy streets of Nairobi to the open grasslands and beyond. The incidents she tells us about are touching, sometimes downright funny, and sometimes so heartbreakingly sad, especially when you know that they really did happen. Some of the incidents she recalls may even seem totally bizarre, but this is the real Africa (you won't read this story in any guide book) and by the time you've read the final page, Africa will have worked some of its magic on you as it has done on Melinda, myself and everybody who has even been there. This book should be compulsory reading for anyone who is even toying with the idea of a visit to Kenya. Melinda will open your eyes to the good and the bad of being a muzugu in Kenya, and you'll still want to go and see for yourself! Forget Karen Blixen, this is 'Out Of Africa' updated for the next millennium!

Melinda Atwood

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I question the motive behind this book (0/0 people found this helpful)

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