Here are a few suggestions of books that you may like to bring with you (optional) or have a look at before you go. Our library is very small, and though there is a copy of most of the guide books in the library, if you are particularly interested in one of these topics you may want to get your own copy. Remember, that you can also arrange to share books amongst yourselves.
Past Experiences
Blog of the 2019 experience: https://afss2019.home.blog/home/
Blog of the 2015 experience: Canadian Field Studies In Africa - 2015 Edition (Wordpress)
Important Lessons learned during semester in East Africa: by Siobhan "Chevy" Lazenby, August 2014
Birds
Observations of a new cology of Ruvu Weavers
Journal of East African Ornithology
By Brown and Lavault, participants in the 2023 AFSS
Field Guide to the Birds of East Africa
By Terry Stevenson. 2001
Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania: Field Guide Edition
By Zimmerman, D.A., D.A. Turner and D.J. Pearson. 1999
Other Natural History
Chimp Empire
The largest group of chimpanzees ever discovered have built a complex society deep in the forest of Ngogo (Kibale), Uganda — but ambition and neighboring rivals threaten to destabilize their empire.
by Mahershala Ali, Netflix, 2023
The Conservation Revolution - Radical ideas for Saving Nature Beyond the Anthropocene
By Bram Buscher and Robert Fletcher
Failing Forward - The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Conservation
By Robert Fletcher
Braiding Sweetgrass- Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
By Robin Wall Kimmerer
A Field Guide to Reptiles of East Africa
By Spawls et al. 2002
Field Guide to Common Trees and Shrubs of East Africa
By Najma Dharani. 2002
The Safari Companion: A guide to Watching African Mammals
By Richard Estes. 1993
Larger Mammals of Africa
By Jean Dorst. A Collins field guide. 1993
Guide Books
Swahili Phrasebook
By Martin Benjamin. Lonely Planet. 2005
Lonely Planet East Africa
By Mary Fitzpatrick. 2003
Maps
You may also like to bring a map of Kenya, Uganda and/or East Africa to keep track of where you are. Many of the travel guide companies make them; they are available in Kenya as well.
Student and Profs Recommended Reads
Kenya Looters and Grabbers
By Joe Khamisi
Guerrilla Incursions Into the Capitalist Mindset - Essays with focus on Kenya
By Shiraz Durani
Africa, A Biography of a Continent.
By John Reader.
Heart of Darkness.
By Joseph Conrad
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda.
By Philip Gourevitch
A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons.
By Robert M. Sapolsky
I Dreamed of Africa.
By Kuki Gallmann
The Poisonwood Bible.
By Barbara Kingsolver
The In-Between World of Vikram Lall.
By M.G. Vassanji (or others by this author)
NO-NONSENSE guide to International Development.
By Maggie Black
Guns, Germs, and Steel.
By Jared Diamond
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities of our time.
By Jeffrey Sachs
Poverty and the critical security agenda.
By Pauline Eadie
