East Africa: An Evolving Landscape

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Summary: The best "coffee table" book on East Africa
Review: This is by far the best "coffee table" book on East Africa. The pictures are one of the best I have seen on the region and I should know for I have lived here for 37 years. The pictures encompass a whole spectrum of landscapes, peoples etc, taken without any journalistic prejudice or bias which otherwise most foreigners cannot seem to shake off - lending their views in their pictures. The narration is also very simplistic and on an "as is" basis. I am fed up of reading about and seeing Africa from a foreigner's point of view who tends to spend a few weeks or months in a place and feels best qualified to compile a tome about the subject. Just because these foreigners have easier access to the international publishing houses, their egos are forced on the general public in the form of expensive books.

Tim Beddow on the other hand has managed to capture East Africa at its best and lets the reader form his/her own opinion on the region. It is a pity that I have given away my copy as a present to an Africa-lover who left the country as I cannot get my hands on another one in Kenya!

Rating:
Summary: The best "coffee table" book on East Africa
Review: This is by far the best "coffee table" book on East Africa. The pictures are one of the best I have seen on the region and I should know for I have lived here for 37 years. The pictures encompass a whole spectrum of landscapes, peoples etc, taken without any journalistic prejudice or bias which otherwise most foreigners cannot seem to shake off - lending their views in their pictures. The narration is also very simplistic and on an "as is" basis. I am fed up of reading about and seeing Africa from a foreigner's point of view who tends to spend a few weeks or months in a place and feels best qualified to compile a tome about the subject. Just because these foreigners have easier access to the international publishing houses, their egos are forced on the general public in the form of expensive books.

Tim Beddow on the other hand has managed to capture East Africa at its best and lets the reader form his/her own opinion on the region. It is a pity that I have given away my copy as a present to an Africa-lover who left the country as I cannot get my hands on another one in Kenya!