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52 of 54 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
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!
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I found this book very disappointing. I lived in Kenya as I am married to a Kenyan and I was really looking forward to reading this book but it gave no insight at all how vast majority live in Africa. Jambo mama is seen through the eyes of a rich American woman who stresses she went to Kenya all alone (left her son in boarding school in USA- doesn't surprise me!) and was very nervous etc but for goodness sake- her boyfriend and his family lived there and his British Father arranged everything for her including the renting of a fine house owned by president Moi! Any problems she had were quickly sorted out and she even had staff! the only problems she encountered on settling was how to handle the staff and she didn't like the decor of the house- it made me cringe. This is not the true way of life there and this book seemed to me just a very rich woman writing of her "jolly adventure" with the totally misguided idea that she was very brave and roughed it! she should try to survive not knowing where her next meal was coming from and hoping you don't get maleria in the rains as you have not earned or managed to get any money for treatment and living in a basic village house with no water like most Kenyans. I went through some terrible times in kenya, lived in the most atrocious conditions, saw suffering I will never forget but I met some of the most respectful hopeful people who have to try to survive from week to week. This book gave no hint of the conditions,suffering and the hope and sweetness of the Kenyan people. To me this book was a very big let down and it quite annoyed me to be honest, it reminded me of the times when Britain had Kenya in the commonwealth and we had the upper hand and had servants etc, there were no poor white people living there before Kenyan independence, I think the author would have loved it pre 60's. A big let down and sickened me.
1 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
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.
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