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The Reluctant Traveller    by Bill Lumley
Price: $3.99 USD. 78660 words. Published by Prospera Publishing  on July 13, 2010. .

“It’s hard not to warm to the author” – The Sunday Telegraph. Fleeing the world of freelance business journalism in London, self-confessed coward Lumley inadvertently finds himself joining a treacherous expedition to find a legendary lost mountain in the northern highlands of war-ravaged Ethiopia.
Tutaishi: The African Tale    by Khaya M. Gqibitole
Price: $6.95 USD. 38270 words. Published by Mondial  on May 19, 2011. .

An African story of shame, hope and triumph. A novel about a young girl, Theo, who manages to escape abuse from the Congo, where she has been in the hands of rebel soldiers. After many difficulties she travels to South Africa where she befriends and later falls in love with a young man, Qhama. They go through a number of hardships, including xenophobia, drugs, and HIV, but at the end they triumph.
Finding Fela: My Strange Journey to Meet the AfroBeat King in Lagos [1983]    by Dan  Dinello
Price: $0.99 USD. 11670 words. Published on December 3, 2011. .

"Finding Fela" is my personal memoir of a journey to Lagos, Nigeria, to film the legendary African musician Fela Kuti. As a white man from Chicago, I experienced extreme culture shock and even got arrested and jailed. Eventually, I lived near Fela's commune, talked with him, and saw him perform at his Lagos club, The Shrine. Now deceased, Fela was the focus of a recent Broadway musical Fela!