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Suggested books

Here are a few suggestions of books that you may like to bring with you (optional) or have a look at before you go.Ìý


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The Indian Ocean World Podcast- on November 15, 2023

PDF icon Observations of a new colony of Ruvu Weavers Ploceus Holozanthus ner Morogoro, Tanzania
Journal of East African Ornithology
By Brown and Lavault, participants in the 2023 AFSS

Blog of the 2019 experience:

,ÌýWritten by Sarah-Leah Eisenberg in July 2019
Published in the McGill Tribune

Julien Palliere Combines Music with Field Studies,ÌýInterviewed by Hannah Darroch in June 2019
For the Schulich School of Music

Blog of the 2015 experience:

:Ìýby Siobhan "Chevy" Lazenby, August 2014

Birds

Field Guide to the Birds of East Africa
By Terry Stevenson. 2001

Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania: Field Guide Edition
By Zimmerman, D.A., D.A. Turner and D.J. Pearson. 1999

Other Natural History

Chimp Empire
The largest group of chimpanzees ever discovered have built a complex society deep in the forest of Ngogo (Kibale), Uganda — but ambition and neighbouring rivals threaten to destabilize their empire.
by Mahershala Ali, Netflix, 2023

The Conservation Revolution - Radical ideas for Saving Nature Beyond the Anthropocene
By Bram Buscher and Robert Fletcher

Failing Forward - The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Conservation
By Robert Fletcher

Braiding Sweetgrass- Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
By Robin Wall Kimmerer

A Field Guide to Reptiles of East Africa
By Spawls et al. 2002

Field Guide to Common Trees and Shrubs of East Africa
By Najma Dharani. 2002

The Safari Companion: A guide to Watching African Mammals
By Richard Estes. 1993

Larger Mammals of Africa
By Jean Dorst. A Collins field guide. 1993

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Guide Books

Swahili Phrasebook
By Martin Benjamin. Lonely Planet. 2005

Lonely Planet East Africa
By Mary Fitzpatrick. 2003

Maps

You may also like to bring a map of Kenya, Uganda and/or East Africa to keep track of where you are. Many of the travel guide companies make them; they are available in Kenya as well.
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Student and Profs Recommended Reads

Conversations with the Turtles- On the Ideological Conundrums of Our Times
By Nilson Ariel Espino

Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World
By Arturo Escobar


Kenya Looters and Grabbers
By Joe Khamisi

Guerrilla Incursions Into the Capitalist Mindset - Essays with focus on Kenya
By Shiraz Durani

Africa, A Biography of a Continent.
By John Reader.

Heart of Darkness.
By Joseph Conrad

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda.
By Philip Gourevitch

A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons.
By Robert M. Sapolsky

I Dreamed of Africa.
By Kuki Gallmann

The Poisonwood Bible.
By Barbara Kingsolver

The In-Between World of Vikram Lall.
By M.G. Vassanji (or others by this author)

NO-NONSENSE guide to International Development.
By Maggie Black

The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities of our time.
By Jeffrey Sachs

Poverty and the critical security agenda.
By Pauline Eadie

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