I Dreamed of Africa

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Summary: A Perspective of Kenya
Review: I Dreamed of Africa is well written and educational. Gallmann tells her story from her heart. I was impressed with how much I learned about the people of Kenya from reading this book. The next comment may sound like a cliche, but it's true: this book should go on the shelf right next to Out of Africa.

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Summary: A book of life and love of one's family and the environment
Review: I found this book in a bookstore in Capetown, SA while on the Sememster at Sea around the world voyage. It captivated my heart with the abounding love between it's cover's and its wonderful life/feel descriptions of the land and people of Africa.

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Summary: Kuki is always compelling for those with the Africa bug!!!!
Review: Kuki Gallmann's dream of Africa is no different from that of millions of others. Africa, her peoples, heritage, culture, resources, landscapes and ways are so absorbing that they are the means of that continent's captivating assimmilation. She writes an absorbing personal, tragic story that becomes monumental as the appropriate story of East Africa. She lives just off of Red Hill Road close to the United Nations compound in Nairobi, Kenya. Catapult into just one of many dimensions of the African experience and supplement imagination with image.

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Summary: One of the most moving love stories of all time
Review: Originating from Africa myself I could identify with the beauty of the land that she wove into her novel. Not often does one read a book that moves them to the very core of their being but this book was one of the few books that would touch one's soul. If you believe in true love or have any spiritual attachment to Africa you will love Kuki's beautiful book.

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Summary: Like an old friend
Review: How often do you read a book that you know you will read again and again and again? I have never met Kuki Gallman, but I have sat at her table many times, as I read this book over and over, sharing her love of family, friends, and of the land they care for. I feel that I know her, that we are friends, and that we share a common respect for each other and the creatures that inhabit this earth. This is not a book to be merely read, but to be felt and experienced. Enjoy!

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Summary: This is a dying Africa. Please help save it!
Review: Kuki Gallmann writes about the real Africa, but also of a dying Africa. Experience it as she describes it. Visualise the beauty of the landscapes, the setting sun, the lion, the elephant, the birds, the people of all ethnic groups. Close your eyes and smell the dust spiralling up when you walk barefeet in the dry river beds, the earth when the first raindrops starts falling after the dry winters, a campfire at sunrise with a steaming mug of coffee in your hands.

Weep over her loss and survive it with her, when the Gallman Memorial Fund rises like the firebird, out of the ashes of her tragedies.

Read her other books, African Nights and Night of the Lions. Read it story by story, and ponder on them, one by one.

Kuki, sing of our beloved Africa!

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Summary: extraordinary
Review: I have read this book many times and on each occasion I discover something new about the characters and myself, it is a wonderful story, made more poignant because it's true. For other fans of the author if you go to amazon.co.uk you'll find the follow up recently published.

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Summary: Life's direction
Review: I dreamed of Africa, written by Kuki Gallman, is one of the most inspiring books that I have come across. It might seem to some as grossly boring and indeed increadible to believe however the fact that this is a true story makes it absolutely fascinating.

It allows an insight into her life and her aspirations that were - and now exist. It shows a way of living which I find absolutely intersting. That is partly due to my belief that all human beings strive for a purpose in life and something to look forward to and hopefully achieve it. This is what Kuki expresses throughout her book. I come from Tanzania and I am thinking of visiting her as well.

Enjoy and feel the sensation of the book.

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Summary: touching and full of love
Review: coming back from Nairobi i found the hebrew translation of "i dreamed of africa" i read it and was deeply touched by the story, the beautiful description of Kenya . on my last trip to Kenya i found in the book store Kuki's book "african nights" and took it back home with me. each night i read one story and it is like being kissed good night kiss . having read "i dreamed of africa" helps a lot to understand the lovely stories in "african nights".

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Summary: Don't dream it - be it .
Review: If you haven't been to Africa or experienced the wonder of the landscapes, the smell of the earth,the fortitude of the people or felt in awe of the human spirit then read this book and GO. Kuki Gallman is one such person who didn't just dream it , she did it. Her personal life story is tragic but also inspiring. The question of using a 'ghost writer' as commented on by a former reviewer misses the whole point of the book. To have done so would have destroyed the very essesnce of the writing - its appeal is through her own use of language and structure. She speaks from the heart , not from the head. If you don't appreciate good , honest soulful story telling , then stick to fiction or encyclopaedias - this is not for you.