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Summary: Vivid memories
Review: Returning from Kenya after a holiday, I longed to revisit all the sites and sounds that I had experienced while in Africa. Browsing through the net I came upon Jambo, Mama and was intrigued with the title. I decided to check it out and see what it had to offer. While reading the book I felt that I was transported back to the glorious sunsets of Kenya, to the smell of the rain and the smiles on the faces of strangers. I felt that I had met a travel partner who saw, felt, and sensed the very things that I had experienced. Thanks for bringing it all back in such a vivid way.
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Summary: A great disappointment
Review: This book could aptly be titled, "The Unique Problems of the Rich", or "Imperial Colonialism Lives on In Kenya in the late 1900's". I was looking for a warm hearted look at living in Kenya, and all I found was the experience of a rich immoral American woman living behind high fences with hired gaurds and house maids, hob nobbing exclusively with the English speaking Europeans. Her humor was directed against Kenya and black Kenyans, who with quiet dignity fulfilled the subservient roles and bad economic reality afforded them. I am the son of missionaries who lived with the people of thier chosen country and gave their lives to help them in every way possible. Against that back ground I was very disappointed with Melinda, her chosen life style, and her lack of interaction with or understanding of the proud and noble peoples she lived amongst. She never interacted with thier culture. She cared nothing at all about their problems. She did nothing at all to help out with any of the social, economic or moral ills that they struggle with. My advice? Skip this book. There are better ones to read.
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Summary: Jambo Mama
Review: This book has 23 reviews already.Where are they? Melinda Atwood
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Summary: Don't Bother
Review: This book was an incredible disappointment. The prose was weak, and the story line boring. The author basically fled reality in America to beautiful Africa, and we get to hear about her mundane day to day existence. I can not believe that many have given this book high accolades! I found it a tremendous dud.
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Summary: The book to read...
Review: This was a wonderful book. This book tells an amazing story about life in Africa for an American woman. The writer is truly gifted. She wrote in such a way as to make the story and the people in it truly come alive. This book was incredibly difficult to put down and when I did I could hardly wait to find out what happened next. She has an amazing ability to make the reader feel as though you are sitting right there watching the story unfold. The writer is able to reveal her deepest feelings on the pages of the book and doesn't hold anything back which truly makes this book a gem. This is a magnificent book and a must read for anyone remotely interested about life in Africa. I can assure you, you won't be dissapointed.
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Summary: Jambo,Mama
Review: Though I have never been to Africa, I've been in love with its land ever since I first read Isak Dinesen's Out Of Africa. In the years since, I've tried to find those certain books that would give me that same sense of awe and wonder, and I've certainly found just that in Ms. Atwood's book, Jambo,Mama. Written in such a way that it feels as though she's sitting in front of you telling her tale, the story is both entertaining and witty, often funny and at times extremely touching. Once again, I was transported to a land I've never been, seeing it through her eyes, and when Ms. Atwood's journey ended, so did mine, and I found myself missing it the way she must.
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