Quite awhile ago, my friend Sarah encouraged us all to choose six books written about Africa or by African authors, read them and write a review of them. So, I am finally writing my reviews, one at a time...
The first book is 28 Stories of AIDS in Africa by Stephanie Nolan. This is a good book to learn about the AIDS crisis as Stephanie takes 28 people affected by the virus and writes a short story about their lives and experiences. She writes about orphans raising younger siblings, wives who were exiled after their virus was discovered despite the fact that they contracted the virus from their husbands, to cross country truckers who frequent prostitutes. She writes a story for each of the million people afflicted by AIDS in Africa. Very powerful and very enlightening.
"If a war had killed 20 million soldiers, and left 28 million more dying of wounds, we'd call it the worst such tragedy since World War II. This is the scale of AIDS in Africa. Stephanie Nolen brings this story to life in a moving, deeply human way. Through these portraits—shrewdly chosen, varied, and sometimes startlingly unexpected—she artfully puts a series of human faces on the greatest health crisis of our time."
- Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost and Bury the Chains
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