LaVonne Neff > LIVELY DUST

[Africa, with Tanzania highlighted] I spent all day Monday in an outpatient clinic (I'm fine; thanks for asking). I met a lot of nur...

Here's a book you may not run across in your local bookstore (if you're lucky enough to still have one: my town has shut down Toad H...

I'm hopelessly in love with anything Alexander McCall Smith writes, so of course I enjoyed every minute of  The Saturday Big Tent Weddin...

Terrorism and torture - they're all over this week's (and most week's) headlines: "Germany tightens airport security over a...

Ngozi Achebe's first novel, Onaedo, The Blacksmith's Daughter , is a good book you're probably never going to read, and that...

If you're interested in African colonial history or cross-cultural evangelism or feminist sociology, or if you'd just like to read a...

Just about every list of great African novels includes Chinua Achebe’s 1958 classic, Things Fall Apart (see my review here ). Achebe, a Ni...