Our Kind of People: A Continent's Challenge, A Country's Hope

✍ Scribed by Iweala, Uzodinma

• Book ID: 108438094
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 568 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780061284908

✦ Synopsis

In 2005 Uzodinma Iweala stunned readers and critics alike with Beasts of No Nation , his debut novel about child soldiers in West Africa. Now his return to Africa has produced Our Kind of People , a non-fiction account of the AIDS crisis every bit as startling and original. HIV/AIDS has been reported as one of the most destructive diseases in recent memory--tearing apart communities and ostracizing the afflicted. But the emphasis placed on death, destruction, and despair hardly captures the many and varied effects of the epidemic, or the stories of the extraordinary people who live and die under its watch.

Our Kind of People opens our minds to these stories, introducing a new set of voices and altering the way we speak and think about disease. Iweala embarks on a remarkable journey through his native Nigeria, meeting individuals and communities that are struggling daily to understand both the impact and meaning of HIV/AIDS. He speaks with people from...