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
By students...
The Indian Ocean World Podcast- on November 15, 2023
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 ¿´Æ¬ÊÓƵ 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