Michele

Michele asked Tim Butcher:

I am currently reading Blood River and loving it. Your writing is superb. I don't read a lot of non-fiction, but I had just finished a book about Zimbabwe and was left wanting more. I knew something about this from Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible. I have also read Alexandra Fuller's memoirs. I am fascinated by Africa and its history. Can you recommend other memoirs about Africa? s

Tim Butcher Michele – thank you for your approach. I am delighted you are enjoying Blood River. The field is wide for African memoir. Some of my favourites include Cutting for Stone (Ethiopia) by Abraham Verghese which, a bit like the eternally fabulous Poisonwood Bible is a biographically-rooted work of fiction: The Dust Diaries by Owen Sheers (Zimbabwe) and The House at Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper (Liberia). At risk of appearing tacky, might I mention another of my books, Chasing the Devil, which again weaves travel with history, this time through Sierra Leone and Liberia. Happy Reading, TimB

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Mark

Mark asked Tim Butcher:

Has the situation in the DRC improved since Blood River? I work as an Observer at the World Bank Forest Carbon Partner Facility trying to reduce deforestation. The DRC jut got approved for an $80 million project which we were objecting to as it does little for forest governance and has a huge chance of not helping the forests, result in the involuntary resettlement of indigenous people and forest dependent communities

Phil Cotnoir

Phil Cotnoir asked Tim Butcher:

I'm sure I'm not the only one who would like to hear your thoughts on the terrible Ebola outbreak in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea. I read Chasing the Devil a while back and it seemed like you had quite a firm grasp on the history and particular cultures of those countries. Any thoughts?

Brad Patton

Brad Patton asked Tim Butcher:

Tim: Just for you information. Chasing The Devil Kindle has not been available here in the US for at least 5 years I have been searching for it that long. Could it be that Amazon Kindle messed up by offering the Chasing The Devil by Sheriff Reichert and mistakenly took yours off as a duplicate? Think how many sales you have missed by this mistake. Thousands.

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